Although I have always been against this, the price of a DLT or AIT or LTO tape cartridge that can hold 100 gigs is just about climbing over that of a hard drive. When you add in the cost of the tape drives that can do it, plus the better transfer speed and drastically better random access, I'm starting to consider reconsidering... ASSUMING that you really do install a hotswap and buy drives the way you would have bought tapes, it is hard to see the advantage of investing in DLT or AIT or LTO.
Does anyone have a recommendation for IDE hotswap bays? What about getting the kernel to recognize the swaps? -Tom On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Brown wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:36:11 -0500 (EST) > From: Stephen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Scot Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] ssystem recovery strategy > > On 16 Jan 2003, Scot Harkins wrote: > > > While a backup to an installed IDE disk is acceptable for things like > > data recovery or even system recovery after certain types of faults, the > > fact that the drive is installed makes it equally susceptible to > > power-related problems. If a lightening strike lands nearby it may well > > fry the system whole, blowing past any power protection devices. > > Likewise, a rare but real occurance is a power-supply fault that blows > > the system. Your installed backup device, with all the backed up data > > and promise of recovery, becomes a paperweight unless you want to pay a > > data recovery firm ($$$) to extract the data. > > IDE drives have become so cheap per Gig that we are actually looking at > using them instead of tapes here at UMBC. Install hotswap frames for > the drives, mirror the drive to be backed up, break the mirrorset, and > throw the drives into the "tape cabinet". > > Steve Brown > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
