[Asterisk-Users] drive space for voice mail

[Joe Greco]

> Matthew Boehm wrote:
> > Can you say 'overkill' ?  *smiles*
> > 
> > I just recorded a 2min voicemail and the resulting file on the server was
> > slightly over 200KB in size.
> > We are only storing 1 format of soundfiles, WAV49.
> > 
> > A 160GB drive is approx 1,677,721,160 KB.
> > 
> > At the rate above you would be able to store almost 28,000 hours of
> > voicemail messages.
> > 
> > Someone wanna check my math?
> 
> Unless my recent math [280,000 hours] was wrong, thats ~ 31 years of 
> voicemail :)

Actually, it works out to about a quarter of that, you need to figure 
in MTBF.  :-)

Actual numbers depend on # of simultaneous recordings, etc., of course,
but it's just interesting to note that MTBF likely becomes an issue
before capacity does.

... JG
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