On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> why not buy a san and have done with it?

A SAN for home use??

How much money do you want to invest in your home PC setup?

Do you have any idea how much your average SAN costs to setup?

> your tapes could hold way more than any cd-rw and it'd be a far easier
> solution in terms of space,
> I mean what does one of those tapes hold? 24 gb so you save in that
> respect,
> not only that, the san  will automagically swap tapes as required. hth

I think you're meaning tape library, not SAN. And even a tape library
would be excessively expensive for home use - I mean, who wants to spend
$5k plus for a home backup device?

DaZZa

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