On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:10:52PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Used tape is not expensive. 8-12 GB units are available on eBay for < > US$100. Tape is cheap and reusable.
I assume you mean some SCSI tape drives as that cheap. If it is so cheap, I should think about it when 640MB became not enough. But I think I also need to buy PCI SCSI card. Extra $100 - $150 here. Right now, for my hobby machine I use disk mirroring and CD-R back up. It's only 3MB if I do not back up images. At work, I use USB-HD as back up for my doze notebook. (I have old parport 2GB tape and ZIP which sucks. do not toutch parport devices.) I think issue of large data archive is locating one needed as quickly as possible. Never found good answer for my digital camera image archive. > CDR is OK if you've got it, but I'd advise tape for backup if you're > starting from scratch. CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) It is not reliable as HD but it will never get erased. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
