Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:13:43 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> To: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <20030224181249.B29646@shell.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com>
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Andrew J Caines wrote: > Tenebrae, > > > I have about 70GB of stuff to back up and I don't want to spend over > > $500US. > > 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. Now if there was a way to get amanda to see groups of disk arrays as tapes in a tape set, this would be a no-brainer... C > On a recent visit to a well-know large vendor, I saw Maxtor 120GB drives > for $90 - well under the magic $1/GB. A few of those, a bit of RAID > (controller or vinum) and you've got a cheap redundant backup store. > > > -Andrew- > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | > | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | > | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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