Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:12:56 04/04/05
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On April 04, 2005 at 21:56:21, Mike Hood wrote: >On April 04, 2005 at 18:31:53, Helmut Conrady wrote: > >>On April 04, 2005 at 15:20:23, George Tsavdaris wrote: >> >>>On April 04, 2005 at 07:35:51, Renze Steenhuisen wrote: >>> >>>>On April 04, 2005 at 06:32:14, George Tsavdaris wrote: >>>> >>>>>>Do you realize how many DVD's that will take? :) >>>>>No:-) >>>>> I guessed it will take around 4-5 DVD's. But even 5-15 would not be a big >>>>>problem, i want to believe......... >>>>> >>>>> Can you give a rough approximation of how many GB's are the whole 6 >>>>>piece.......? >>>> >>>>Dude! >>>> >>>>3-men: 62.5 KByte >>>>4-men: 29.5 MByte >>>>5-men: 6.9 GByte >>>>6-men: ~600 GByte (up until now!) >>>> >>>>You do the math how many DVD's that will be... Only 247 out of 365 of the 6-men >>>>are done by the way. >>> >>>Oops yeah! I incorrectly assumed 100 MB for the whole 5 piece tablebases, while >>>this is for a single (the mean value) 5-piece endgame........ >>>So they should find another storage way for 6 piece tablebase distribution..... >>> >>>> >>>>Cheers! >>>> >>>>Renze >> >>In 2006 we will probably have harddisks with a capacity over 1 Terabyte, which >>will be enough for all 6-men. >> >>Helmut > >Really, Helmut? I think you're being too optimistic about the increase in hard >disk sizes. If you're right I'll buy you a beer at my local pub. If not, I >expect you to pay. I'd bet that 1.0 TB will be too small. If you were to say 2.0 TB would be enough, I would probably agree...
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