On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Chris Ess wrote:
On 21 July 2011 15:29, Chris Ess <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:This is true of any physical backup mechanism though. Whether it's drives, tapes, etc., it will be an added expense and off-site storage will be an additional hassle. Yes, that's true - but tapes are smaller and lighter than entire enclosures with multiple harddrives and PSUs (or even just the drives). Even LTO-5 tapes aren't *that* bulky or heavy...This is true. There are some small USB external drives which are more portable but the largest I've seen for these is 1 TB. Once your data exceeds that, you'd need to carry around multiple drives and this may remove the portability benefit.
mount a removable drive bay into a external USB case, then you can put whatever size drive you want in place (and switch to larger drives as they come out)
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