Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:36:47 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <200302251336.h1PDalqn063876@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20030224212042.GE85610@hal9000.halplant.com>
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Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> wrote:
>
> > > 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.
That's what I do, too -- Backup up on a bunch of 80Gbyte
UDMA133 disks. Any tape solution would be considerably
more expensive (and slower).
> The off-site issue is a tricky one with disks, but some DIY HSM can work
> in suitable cases.
I've bought a 5.25" mounting frame for 3.5" IDE HDDs which
supports hot-plug ("ViPower" brand); it works fine with
atacontrol detach and attach under FreeBSD 4-stable.
The removable disk enclosures for that frame are only
8 Euro per disk.
I think it is really a perfect solution for backing up
large amounts of data. I have also some files for which
I maintain an archive history of several years, but those
don't make a large volume, so I can put them on some DDS2
tapes and MO disks.
Regards
Oliver
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