Stop please? (OT)
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.
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