Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:01:52 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives Message-ID: <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com>
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Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> 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
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