-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 09:07, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:36:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/07/06 08:16, Douglas Tutty wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> [snip] [snip] > Personal data. Design archive size is 80 GB but want it to scale well.
IMO, you're making a mountain out of a molehill. > What I've found is that for the same money as a DLT tape, I can get a > 2.5" seagate hard drive. A ruggedized enclosure is $30 (Addonics > Jupiter). The only cost that corresponds to a tape drive unit is the > interface cable to connect the drive enclosure. I can keep a USB cable > in the bank with the archive so that I can use it with any computer, and > an eSATA cable here (eSATA will _eventually_ be hot plug I hope). 2.5" drives in a plain-old USB enclosure are all you need. Buy 3 of them. One goes to the bank vault, another to your parents house, another in your bedroom closet. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFeEzcS9HxQb37XmcRAinbAJ4urZeLNLQVUgAwP/Z5izbARObaawCfdnKM cbIJqJqrmZzdHrkAMmtqDbs= =gx04 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
