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Contents 1 Grapefruit Generation 1.1 Goals 1.2 Project Timeline 1.3 Hard Drives 1.4 Controllers 1.5 Cost

Grapefruit Generation

Goals

• Wanted a real cheap drive, controller, etc.
• 4x 250G Maxtor drives
• 2x Promise PDC20269 Ultra 133 ATA (PCI) controller cards

Project Timeline

• first purchase Mar 19, 2005 4 250G drives

Hard Drives

• 4 x (100716-1) Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B250R0 250GB Ultra ATA/133 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer ***Free 2nd Day*** @ $132.00

Controllers

Cost

• immediate cost/Gig is TODO

• disk/storage is $0.52 / gb

>>> (132.00 * 4) / (250 * 4)
0.52800000000000002