On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> Here is a quick chart, based on five minutes of research at PC Connection's
> website, of media cost, in dollars per gigabyte:
>
> Media GB $/GB
> ------ ----- ------
>....
> CR-R 0.65 1.41
>....
I believe you can the 100-disk spindles of CDR for under $40 now, which
brings the cost down to about 65 cents per gigabyte.
I've had many bad experiences in the past with tape technology; for my
home machines, I'm setting up a backup system using removable IDE hard
drives. A 45gb drive for $199 comes to roughly $4 per gigabyte, and
doesn't entail a capital cost of thousands like DLT or AIT would.
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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj / Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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