On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:00:59PM +0200, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am faced with occasionally needing to extract large (50-500GB)
> chunks of a data archive and ship them to random locations around the
> planet. My current plan is Ye Olde Stack of DVDs, but I don't want to
> constantly create the sets by hand.
>> The obvious (?) solution is some scripting, a DVD-R drive, a spindle
> of blanks, and a robotic arm that knows where they both are.
>
I sense, with volumes like that, and the prices as they are, that
correctly padded / protected hard-drives will work out to be a more
cost-efficient and speedy solution ?
P
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