From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 13: 1:55 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 3127537B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:01:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB6743F3F for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:01:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 18nPjU-0007S1-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:01:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:01:52 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Stable List References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. 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 Andrew J Caines probably said: > 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. If you only want one or two copies of things and be pretty careful about moving those copies to an offsite location. Personally I like having a long run of archived backups (I have backups going back about 4 years at this point), doing that with disk is not really cost effective. P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message