On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 03:37, Oleg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:32, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > But if you seriously want to do backups, you should have a look > > > at tape drives. Harddisks, especially IDE disks are in no way a > > > safe medium. > > > > Don't tapes get torn, munched and demagnetized? > > It's been years since I've seen that, but _maybe_ (or maybe not) > that's because I shell out USD3,000 for a DLT drive and USD60 > for DLT tapes... I'm sure AIT has the same quality. > > > Why not do backups on CD-R/RW? > > Hmmm. Let's see: > Max uncompressed storage on CD: 700MB > Max Uncompressed storage on tape: 110,000MB (SuperDLT)
Come on, the list was through this already. You know, Mark is right when he asks not to start it again. I was stupid to bring it up. -- Embedded Linux -- True multitasking! TWO TOASTS AT THE SAME TIME! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
