I have been to the technical news page
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php which tells me the
following:-

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February 19, 2005 - 15:15 UTC
We have had trouble this week with the NAS box that stores the result
and workunit files (ie the upload and download directories - aka ULDL).
After several months of flawless functioning it has started to hang for,
as yet, mysterious reasons. The vendor is working closely with us to
resolve the problem. The ULDL is a terabyte in size and we don't have
the capability to just move it to other storage, even temporarily. We
are looking at work arounds. Unfortunately the project will be going up
and down as we work on this.

The new database server (as opposed to the currently troublesome data
server) continues to run well.

February 10, 2005 - 21:30 UTC
We have moved the primary database service over to the new server.
Everything is looking good at this point. The new machine is currently
very under utilized which is good - we are going to grow a lot!

The new system consists of a Sun v40z opteron with 2 1.8GHz processors
and 8GB RAM, connected to a Sun 3510 fibre channel storage array. The
latter was donated by Sun. As the needs of the project increase we can
add 2 additional CPUs and take RAM up to 32GB.

The old database server is now a replica that will be used for backups
and administrative queries.

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Isn't that a bit of a contradiction or am I misreading it ?

They transferred to a new server on 10th and on 19th they're having huge
problems with the server yet the new server's working well but it's
under utilized...

How do we change to this under utilized server whilst the other one's
down ?
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