Mailing the story:
New local system shares content with Internet users
The Tertiary Education Network (TENET) has established a large mirror server to share content with both local and international users. The new server, hosted at http://www.mirror.ac.za/ , boasts some of the most impressive specifications in the local Internet environment. The server comprises of an internal array of six 400 GB disks, and three external arrays of twelve 500 GB disks each. The arrays are all configured in raid-5 with hotswap for redundancy, and the total active disk space after raid loss is in excess of 13 terabytes.