From: Niall O Broin (nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de)
Date: Thu 28 Oct 1999 - 09:55:33 IST
David Murphy said
> Scan have a Sony 2GB internal SCSI DAT drive with 5.25" mounting kit
> and 2 tapes for STG£99 at http://www.scan.co.uk/today.htm
Nice price, but that drive doesn't do any hardware compression, and when
you can get probably 16GB of harddisk for £100 . . . backing that up if
it's even only half full is going to take 3-4 DAT tapes. That said, in a lot
of cases 2GB is more than adequate for a small cheap server which you might
have tended to build in the past without any backup because it was cheap and
nasty - now an extra £100 or so gets you a good backup system.
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator nobroin at domain esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
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