From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 25 5:36:53 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 959D237B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:36:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470B443FBD for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:36:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1PDamdK063877; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:36:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h1PDalqn063876; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:36:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:36:47 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200302251336.h1PDalqn063876@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew J Caines Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew J Caines Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives In-Reply-To: <20030224212042.GE85610@hal9000.halplant.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.7-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 wrote: > > > > 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. That's what I do, too -- Backup up on a bunch of 80Gbyte UDMA133 disks. Any tape solution would be considerably more expensive (and slower). > The off-site issue is a tricky one with disks, but some DIY HSM can work > in suitable cases. I've bought a 5.25" mounting frame for 3.5" IDE HDDs which supports hot-plug ("ViPower" brand); it works fine with atacontrol detach and attach under FreeBSD 4-stable. The removable disk enclosures for that frame are only 8 Euro per disk. I think it is really a perfect solution for backing up large amounts of data. I have also some files for which I maintain an archive history of several years, but those don't make a large volume, so I can put them on some DDS2 tapes and MO disks. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message