Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:19:35 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net>
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Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> probably said: > >>At the rate ATA drives are going up in size and down in price, tape seems >>to be less and less of a cost-effective solution, both for drives and >>media. > > > If you only want one or two copies of things and be pretty careful > about moving those copies to an offsite location. > > Personally I like having a long run of archived backups (I have > backups going back about 4 years at this point), doing that with disk > is not really cost effective. Just out of curiousity, how many of your users come back after 4 years asking for their deleted files? -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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