On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Josh Coates wrote: > > If you want longevity and capacity, go with tape. Period. > > BUZZ > > wrong answer. :-/
I would suspect that one of those RAID NAS units would be a good backup solution for many environments. Sealed hard disks accessed via NFS/SMB/FTP over an Ethernet connection will probably be accessible for as long as you'll need the data, and they will certainly last longer than either tape or optical when being written to repeatedly. Here's something I found on NewEgg (note that I do not necessarily endorse this product, but it is pretty cheap for a stand-alone solution, at about 70 cents a gigabyte): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822155306 This one claims to do RAID-5, if you are a bit more paranoid about hardware failure (which you should be ;-): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833329006 Mike .___________________________________________________________________. "In science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts." - Carl Sagan
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
/* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
