On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:01:25 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:43:11 +0100, Eric wrote:

Today, of course, binaries on Usenet will completely overwhelm any
infrastructure that is foolish enough to take them...

Really ? So how can a news service offer nearly a 1,000 days of binary
retention, when 10 years ago it was a struggle to get a week?

Discs have fallen in price and increased in size quite a bit in ten
years. The HD in this machine is about ten years old at the time is was
a massive (and expensive SCSI) 1 GB, that is one gigabyte. These days
it's common to find basic machines with 1,000 GB (1 TB) drives.

The other factor is that file system design has improved, and now scales
reasonably.

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