On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Wow, people still use tapes for backup?
>
> With current hard drive prices (200GB @ US$55, 500GB @ US$120) you can
> just keep buying hard drives :)
>
> Surely tape price/GB is higher than hard drive price/GB...
Tapes can be archived for long time, drives can't. Drives need to be
mounted into fairly bulky subsystems, tapes can be easily handled by
robots.
Ralf
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