OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

[Lerebours, Jose]

Walter aired:
> 
> Fairlight wrote:
> > DVD-RW/+RW anyone?
> 
> Cons:
> 	They only allow up to 100,000 rewrite cycles[1]
> Pros:
> 	Disks are about $1.50 each now.
> 	Writers are less than $100 now.
> 
> Yep, I wanna be in the tape business today. Oh, wait we beat 
> that up a 
> few weeks ago...
> 

Never mind CDs/DVDs ... use Flash media!

Funny how we, the filePro community, appear to be
inclined to suggest the use of technology that is
more common in the windows arena than it is in
*NIX.

I am sure that LINUX has tools to use CDs and DVDs
but I am not sure they are as advanced as those
available for windows.  I can almost bet the farm
that SCO UNIX has nothing available worth talking
about - specially if money (cost) is an issue.

It is refreshing to see the flexibility shown and the
apparent willingness to talk about things and possibly
suggest the use of non-unix based solutions.

I know, not all members of the list are unix shop.  It
is good to see them come out of the closet and not
have them asked back.   :-)

Regards;


Jose Lerebours