From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 24 15:13:51 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 3C3D137B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:13:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from util.inch.com (ns.inch.com [216.223.192.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8852A43FDD for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:13:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (inch.com [216.223.192.20]) by util.inch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/UTIL-INCH-3.0.10) with ESMTP id h1ONDjSX097727; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:13:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from shell.inch.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell.inch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1ONDiOh044491; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:13:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@inch.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by shell.inch.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h1ONDipf044486; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:13:44 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.inch.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:13:43 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman To: Andrew J Caines Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives In-Reply-To: <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> Message-ID: <20030224181249.B29646@shell.inch.com> 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 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 On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Andrew J Caines wrote: > 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. Now if there was a way to get amanda to see groups of disk arrays as tapes in a tape set, this would be a no-brainer... C > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message