Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Babyhueyhnx
i currently have control over 2 servers. as to how much space would be required I'm not quite sure. maybe you could give me a ballpark idea. from there i could better asses this situation.
ive been looking into getting a bigger server with 20 GB of storage. not sure if it will materialize yet.
Phil
|
Inventor models are about 1-2 MB each. FCL has hundreds of models. We could estimate about 100-200MB for just inventor models are on FCL. Most have AutoCAD files (.5-1MB i think) so that is 50-100MB. Most have STEP and STL which is another 1-2MB each (+200-400MB). That brings FCL up to 350-700MB range (conservitiave estimate). I have a feeling that we will end up having many more models (so 10 times more is about 7 GB). Is that doable? There is also space needed for the site stuff (html ect) so i wouldn't want much less than 10GB (but that's just me
)
Hard drives are cheep. Look in you newspaper ads and wait for someone to have a rebate on hardrives. I got my 80GB hard drive for $40. I saw some 40GB ones for 20. get one at about $.50 a gig. You don't need a new server, just more hardrives. Most servers have that I have seen (and most other computer) have support for many hard drives. just add another one in there for the models.