OT: Tape less Backup System

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:49:20PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> At Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:31:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
> suspect D. Thomas Podnar was observed uttering:
> > Another interesting set of drives is the new AIT "Turbo" series.
> > Top-of-the-line AIT2 Turbo is very fast, 80/204GB, has cheaper media
> > (no more internal memory chips in the media) and is ~$1,200 street price.
> 
> But not exactly something you stick in your home machine.  My new machine
> will have 680GB of disk.  The storage only cost 239 * 2 + 70 or so...  So
> there's no way in hell that I'm going to put in a piece of equipment that
> costs more than twice as much as the actual realtime storage media, yet
> gets used once in a blue moon for actual redundancy.

Nope.  In that circumstance, you get a cheap ATA RAID controller, and
mirror your drives.

Cheers,
-- jra
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