Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
  By: Sniper to Angus Mcleod on Thu Aug 19 2004 11:24 pm

 > -=> Angus Mcleod scribbled to Sniper <=-
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 >  AM> {at}MSGID: 
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 >  AM>   Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
 >  AM>   By: Sniper to Angus Mcleod on
 >  AM> Thu Aug 19 2004 21:39:00
 > 
 >  > So, how are us little home users supposed to afford that kind of stuff?
 > 
 >  AM> We just get stuffed.  The best form of backup for todays large-format
 >  AM> disks are more large-format disks.  To back up an 80 gig drive (for
 >  AM> example) I doubt you will get anything cheaper than another 80 gig
 >  AM> drive.
 > 
 > It sucks, because I could think of alot better things to do with another
 > 80 gig drive.  Actually, the drive I'm most afraid of are the 2 300 gig
 > drives with all the drivers and such I use for my clients computers.
 > Some of those were near to impossible to find.
 > 
 >  > I've never had a major problem with tapes...
 > 
 >  AM> Magnetic media here suffers from the environment.  A sort of fungus
 >  AM> grows on tapes and floppies and there is nothing you can do.  You can
 >  AM> keep them in a sealed container with silica gel, but you have to take
 >  AM> them out to use them and eventually, your backup go bye-bye.
 > 
 > Ah, another wrinkle in that idealistic lifestyle that you live.  :)
 > 
 > 
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dragon?"

What about holographic storage? Anyone know of any productions systems that do
that? The crystal could probably be sealed in soemthing to keep the fungi out,
and I have heard that tests by IBM have lead to over two TB on a crystal the
size of a sugar cube. (Even if there is not such as thing available yet, we
should have enough genius here on Dove-Net to beat one together. :)
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