Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
100 gigabyte hard disk is less than $200 Where? I'm not even aware of a 100G disk being sold. while the last check on high capacity tape drives turned up prices exceeding 4 times that for maybe a quarter the capacity because advertised tape capacity is compressed capacity. I think you're

Re: MacOSX and gnutat problem

2002-06-30 Thread dirkx
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Martin Hepworth wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone trying tomake this work with hfspax ? OK I checked the report from last night's run and it worked fine. Hurray. Would love to see a summary page :-) I'll try Jon's patch for amanda next week. What does this

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread dirkx
100 gigabyte hard disk is less than $200 while the last check on high capacity tape drives turned up prices exceeding 4 times that for maybe a quarter the capacity because advertised tape capacity is compressed capacity. I's an engineering tradeoff. But pricewise: Very true. Backups are

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Mike Delaney
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 01:14:43AM -0700, Anthony A. D. Talltree wrote: 100 gigabyte hard disk is less than $200 Where? I'm not even aware of a 100G disk being sold. Seagate and IBM sell 120 GB ATA drives. Street price is around $120-140. Seagate also has a 180 GB SCSI/FC-AL disk in their

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:26, Mike Delaney wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 01:14:43AM -0700, Anthony A. D. Talltree wrote: 100 gigabyte hard disk is less than $200 Where? I'm not even aware of a 100G disk being sold. Seagate and IBM sell 120 GB ATA drives. Street price is around $120-140.

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread C. Chan
Also Sprach Anthony A. D. Talltree: 100 gigabyte hard disk is less than $200 Where? I'm not even aware of a 100G disk being sold. Watch out, 1 TB is just around the corner or at least within the next 2-3 years. while the last check on high capacity tape drives turned up prices exceeding

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Ron Stanonik
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:26, Mike Delaney wrote: Both WD(spit) and Maxtor are now selling ATA-133 320 giggers at less than 500 bucks on the street. We just made up a software raid server using Promise 20269 cards and 4 of the maxtor 160's, been up

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 June 2002 12:41, Ron Stanonik wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:26, Mike Delaney wrote: Both WD(spit) and Maxtor are now selling ATA-133 320 giggers at less than 500 bucks on the street. We just made up a software raid server using Promise

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread robinsom
Michael C. Robinson ATA-100 hard drives are often the same drives as their SCSI models except for one difference, the controller on a scsi drive has additional chips that allow independent operation from the CPU. Temperature and dust seem to be the biggest problem for hard drives as well as

Re: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
Where? I'm not even aware of a 100G disk being sold. Seagate and IBM sell 120 GB ATA drives. Street price is around $120-140. Seagate also has a 180 GB SCSI/FC-AL disk in their catalog, With all due respect, those 120 and 180 aren't 100, and since ATA disks are basically toys I wasn't even

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RE: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Steve Follmer
The current eWeek has an article which discusses this issue. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=28513,00.asp ...In fact, analysts at research company Gartner Dataquest, in San Jose, Calif., project significant growth for new technologies that have the potential to cut backup costs.

RE: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread C. Chan
Also Sprach Steve Follmer: The current eWeek has an article which discusses this issue. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=28513,00.asp While ATA's potential to augment or even replace tape for backup is great, products are just beginning to roll out. Vendors including Seagate

RE: Tape Drives, why?

2002-06-30 Thread Steve Follmer
I should clarify that I was quoting the article. I will forward this to the author: capital B is for Bytes lower-case b is for bits So you are saying she cited a rate 8x faster than reality. -Steve Follmer Hear me now, believe me later -Original Message- From: C. Chan