On 26/6/03 2:02 pm, "Bob Smith" wrote: snip
> but if backing up huge amounts daily, the > latest, fastest tape drives are actually more efficient than hard > drives. I'm on a couple of lists populated by network administrators > and you see more and more of them moving to using hard drives for > certain types of backup but tape is still tops for most efficient in > terms of backing up a lot of data quickly; and doing so on relatively > inexpensive media (though the drive is quite costly). Bob With respect, perhaps you did not read my e-mail correctly. My whole point was that tape is NOT the inexpensive media it once was. Perhaps on large scale back-up solutions above AIT2 level, it may be. But on small scale projects (I looked at Ecrix, ECHO, AIT1, AIT2, DAT, Travan etc.), which most photographers have, where the amount of data is up to 300Gb, then a LaCie BigDisk 500Gb works out far, far cheaper. By as little as half the cost of buying the equivalent storage in tapes. If anyone needs proof of that, I'll e-mail them an Excel spreadsheet with the figures. (requests off-list only) Also how can tape be tops for efficiency? You have to change tapes! With a large hard drive, you never need to lift a finger. I think you'll find the latter to be more efficient :-) regards Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
