Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
  By: Takumi to Angus Mcleod on Fri Aug 20 2004 01:26 am

 >  > Magnetic media here suffers from the environment.
 > 
 > I've never heard of anything like that.  Where exactly is here?

Angus is referring to Barbados. But I live here in Southern California and gave
up on tape drives (QIC-80 and the like) years ago after too many failed
restores. Very frustrating.

I like CD-Rs and DVD-Rs for back-up media, but obviously too small for many
gigs.

                                                  digital man

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