OT: XP SP2 Security Hole / Backup Thread Appended

[D . Thomas Podnar]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:22:38AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004, D. Thomas Podnar wrote:
> >: The AIT that handles 500GB native and 1TB compressed was
> >: a bit over $5000 when I priced it - out of curiosity.  It may have
> >: come down since then.
> >: 
> >: Bill
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> >Street Prices
> >-------------
> >AIT-1    35/90GB - ~$600
> >AIT-2   50/120GB - ~$1000
> >AIT-3  100/260GB - ~$1800
> >AIT-4  200/520GB - Should slot in around $3200 when it ships.
> >SAIT1 500/1300GB - ~$9000
> 
> Let's see, external 160GB USB2/FireWire hard drives are about $200.00 plus
> a FireWire card and an OS that support it.  I can buy a lot of those for
> the price of just the tape drive, not to mention the media.

Yes, you could. The media cost for an offsite rotation of 10 USB drives
would be a wee bit higher than 10 REV media, however.

Tom



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