-=> Angus Mcleod scribbled to Sniper <=-

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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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