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<div class="">Kevin Buterbaugh - Senior System Administrator</div>
<div class="">Vanderbilt University - Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education</div>
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<div class="">On Jan 16, 2018, at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Buzzard <<a href="mailto:jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk" class="">jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 16:35 +0000, Buterbaugh, Kevin L wrote:<br class="">
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I am quite sure someone storing 1PB has to pay more than someone<br class="">
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Because they won’t … they’ll do something more brain dead like put a WD MyBook they bought at Costco on their desk and expect their job to copy data back and forth from it to /tmp on the compute node. We have to offer a service that users are willing to pay
for … we can’t dictate to them the way things WILL be.</div>
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<div>There’s a big difference between the way things should be and the way things actually are … trust me, those of us in the United States know that better than most people around the world after the past year! Bigly! Buh-leave ME! :-O</div>
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