Re: Policy Enforcement

[Jeff Kell <Jeff-Kell () UTC EDU>]

In the 80s our Library bought the first available HP "gigabyte special" - three 440Mb HP7933 disc drives - for just 
under $100K as I recall.  What went on there?  

VTLS of course :-)   And they're still running it (albeit on Oracle / RedHat these days)

Not as fat/square as the old IBM2311 / ISS OEM drive footprint, but pretty big, and no glass top to see the platters.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:34:44 -0400
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Policy Enforcement

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:57:48 CDT, you said:
> That must have been a ways back.  In 1998 or 1999 I was impounding a hard
> drive from an academic lab for more or less the same thing, and the
> faculty member in question observed that a hard drive or three over the
> course of the year was money way ahead of paying an actual sysadmin or
> doing any security on the server in question.

Yeah, that was within a year or two of our incident.  Drives *were* cheaper
than sysadmins, but still in the high 3 digits to low 4 digits in price that
was enough to make you sit up and take notice if your department chair said
it was coming out of your hide because you screwed up.