Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:32:01 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: I give up |
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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.
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