OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

[Fairlight]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:13:58AM -0600, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Lerebours, Jose cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> 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.

And I thought Walter was trying to beat me up--then I read the actual
contents twice.  :)

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

Uhm, isn't that still a bit pricey, relatively speaking?  

> 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.

And why not?  Aside from the diehards like Bob Stockler, JPR, John Esak,
and some others, it seems like a good many of the people here are on
Windows.  Some are on both, in heterogeneous environments.

> 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.

You'd likely lose.  As I'm sure JPR would be willing to point out, SCO has
CD burning software available.  And BackupEdge works on SCO and is supposed
to work just fine with DVD's from what I've heard.

> I know, not all members of the list are unix shop.  It

I'd say probably the majority aren't.  That's the impression I get.  It's
just that the more vocal of the group -are-.  The Windows folks seem to
lurk more for whatever reason.  Maybe they haven't found the Send button
yet...  :)

mark->
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