Be careful what you ask for, thats the moral here.
Months spent asking after a new server with more drivespace. What happens? There is no server, make do. Can we have additional storage here? Well. … we could put you on the NAS. GREAT! Except we don’t know how to hook that up to anything, and that seems so tedious to figure out. And then we wouldn’t have all these pristine unused drives!!! OK, fine, USB? Oh ,no, you don’t want USB. It would be too slow!
How is NOT HAVING MY SYSTEM an improvement over “it’s too slow”???
So, we find things we can cut and trim, seriously months of this, trying to get it to fit within the specifications we were given as already available to us. It’s not pretty, huge chunks of functionality are marked off with “there’s no space to store the data this requires, come back later”
Well, two weeks before launch, someone got a bee in their bonnet that “OMGZ! the data isn’t on the system! POMG!!!!” and lit a fire under people.
This led to, a week before launch, we get told that they’re giving us a new server. Somehow they FOUND one, and it has 1.5T instead of 700G of drives. IT’s got more memory, more HDD, everything. It’s like two generations ahead of what we got the first time. GREAT! A little late, can we … NOT move the system? Since you need time to set it up still?
Oh, no no no! That’s not acceptable! We need to move to the new system so all the data can be available immediately! Oh, and since it’s so big, we’re switchign to 64bit architecture. And recompiling all our stuff for 64bit is silly, so we’re going to upgrade everything to latest and greatest.
And it should be up by the day before launch. We’ll move you over then. No, there’s nothing in the dev environment.
So, seriously, we’re looking at a brand new server, with all new software versions, on a new architecture, no more than a few days before we launch.
I’m so sorry we asked for more drive space, because this is going to turn into a COMPLETE CLUSTER!