Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Don't forget, too, that you'll need to be careful about the relative >> fragility of hard drives. > > THe advantage of hard drives, is that you know (through regular surface > scans and controller diags) if it is about to fail. Something that's hard > to do with tape media without wearing out your head or your tapes via > regular test reads.
I had in mind more the problem of dropped media. You can drop a DDS, DLT, AIT, LTO (etc.) tape onto a hard surface from eyeball height, and no harm is likely. The same is not true of a hard drive. -- Cheers, The shortest distance between two puns is a straightline. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
