Hosting facilities (well, this one) aren’t the most pleasant of places to spend a weekend. Dry air, lots of noise, no bathroom without calling the porter, no food allowed. Dirty air too, after 2 hours my skin felt horribly dirty. I did get to look at the nice cluster of xSeries servers in 4 racks with attached SAN though, and the set of inter-connected SGI servers.
And as for the title of this post? When the copy was finished, we went from 100% capacity used (400 MB to spare!) to 25% used. It should last 6 months before I need to request more drives for the array - at least that’ll be easier to do. Go to Manchester, insert drives in array enclosure, drive back to work, manage enclosure remotely.
