Hard Drive Space Required to Copy CD's

Space required to copy the CD's to hard drives

Richard Lewis [email protected]

Fort Myers, Florida

Edited 10/18/99

We use two 25 Gbytes Hard Drives (IBM Deskstar 25 Gbyte Drives which sell for $243 each)

Drive 1 is partitioned intoC:1 GbyteWin98 & PAS
 D:12 GbytesFor IGI addendum
 E:7 GbytesFor Ancestrial File
 F:5 GbytesFor Social Security
Drive 2 is partitioned intoG:18 GbytesFor IGI
 H:2 Gbytesfor Library Catalog
 I:2 Gbytesfor Scottish CR
 J:2 Gbytesfor Military Records

There is some room left in each Partition which can be moved around with Partion Magic from PowerQuest. We have 4 Centers now with all the FamilySearch networked without using CD's. 1000 name can be run through Temple Ready in about 10 Min.

Slave computers have different disk numbers than the server because of the CD Drive. This could be changed but it give us no problem.


Space required to copy the CD's to hard drives

Marty Allred [email protected]

Fort Folsom, California

Edited 10/19/99

It just so happens that last night I had to check the space requirements for all of the Family Search CDs so that we can update our documentation. Here is the exact sizes that the CDs take up: CD set Space used ------ ---------- Ancestral File 5,474,394,112 Family History Lib. Cat. 433,143,808 IGI Addendum 9,550,921,728 IGI British Isles 5,651,169,280 IGI Central Europe 1,492,623,360 IGI Denmark 516,358,144 IGI Finland & Iceland 853,794,816 IGI Germany 2,608,730,112 IGI Mexico 2,009,243,648 IGI North America 3,165,757,440 IGI Norway 497,557,504 IGI South America 471,912,448 IGI Sweden 624,660,480 Military Death Index 515,850,240 Scottish Church Records 635,568,128 Social Security Death 1,411,567,616 There are some others (Asia, Misc, etc) that we don't have installed yet due to a lack of the original CDs. Don't ask, it's a sore spot. Our C: drive, where the OS (Win98) and all apps are installed uses 420M. That makes the grand total ~35G. We have about 50G, so we're also looking at putting some census CDs and some other stuff on there. We've created documentation for standardizing the configuration of each PC, for the setup of Windows95 (all the workstations) and for installing all of our applications. I'm updating them today and tomorrow. When I finish them, I'll send them in for criticisms and for the benefit of others.