In the 1996 I bought a Travan-3 1.6/3.2gb tape drive to back up the 1.6gb I had in my 120mhz Windows 95 PC because the damn thing kept crashing and taking everything with it. Think I paid about $250. Upgraded to TR-4 4/8gb for Windows 98 on the 233mhz but that was the last one since 2000/XP didn't crash and kill itself, but I still partitioned the hard drives and creating nightly ghost clones for the first few years.
only way you could spend $500 today on a drive is a SSD. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My first hard drive was a 5 megabyte, full height, MFM Tandon. After > installing MS-DOS and all the software I had, it was still half empty. Then > I did a full backup, onto 360K floppies. > > Never have done a full backup of any hard drive in any of my computers > since that one time. (Other than when upgrading to a bigger drive.) > > I remember when drives hit the $1 per megabyte level, with the first 500 > megabyte drives. It's impossible to spend $500 on a single bare drive today. > > If some company would put a few brain cells together, they'd realize > there's a market for an AFFORDABLE desktop LTO4 or LTO5 drive. LTO tapes are > relatively cheap but the LTO4 and later drives are insane prices, even for > used ones. $1,500 or more for a tape drive?! The tapes can be found for $40 > or less. Used LTO1/2/3 drives can be found for decent prices, but their > uncompressed capacity has lagged behind newer hard drives. > > I consider it a 'holy grail' to have an offline or near-line backup that > can copy a hard drive to a single piece of media which costs less than the > drive being backed up. Extra bonus points if it does it without compression. > AFAIK, Linear Tape Open is the only one that can do that, except for the LTO > drives costing more than several complete PCs. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
