On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > >> > >>Have you considered a tape drive? > > > >Yes, and the price-tag left me speechless. > > What about removable disk drives?
Tape and disk go back and forth over which is cheaper per GB (TB?). For frequent backups, sure a disk drive _may_ be appropriate depending on the storage facilities available, but for sitting on a shelf (e.g. archiving), a hard drive's firmware isn't really set up for dealing with bit-rot that happens while off-line over time whereas this is tape's bread and butter. I hope in the next couple of months to get a small tape library from the same place I got my four NetServer LPr boxes. It supposed to have an LTO-2 tape drive and storage for a dozen tapes, all in a 3U enclosure, and all for $500. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
