From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 12:58:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC91937B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.halplant.com (ip68-98-172-73.nv.nv.cox.net [68.98.172.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5C943F75 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:58:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 31F408A; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:58:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:58:11 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines To: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable List References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ X-Yahoo-Profile: AJ_Z0 Importance: Normal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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