Hard Drive Space Required to Copy CD's
Space required to copy the CD's to hard drives
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 into | C: | 1 Gbyte | Win98 & PAS |
  | D: | 12 Gbytes | For IGI addendum |
  | E: | 7 Gbytes | For Ancestrial File |
  | F: | 5 Gbytes | For Social Security |
Drive 2 is partitioned into | G: | 18 Gbytes | For IGI |
  | H: | 2 Gbytes | for Library Catalog |
  | I: | 2 Gbytes | for Scottish CR |
  | J: | 2 Gbytes | for 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
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.