Re: "Semi-Hot-Swap" of IDE discs (OT)
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)
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