hi ya petro
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk
> > > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user
> > > --- has all the data... no way for stealing corp secrets
>
> > That's innovative, but impractical.
>
> No, it's a great idea, but you can do the same thing even more
> safely with tapes.
good point.. give um tapes.... most people dont have an expensive
drive sitting at home .... to go poking around on it
while everybody can poke around on an ide disk
> > A terabyte is 10 AIT-3 tapes. How many disks is it?
>
> 10 120 gig IDE drives.
>
> Each with lots of electronics to fail.
yuppers... and with a tape drive.. you only fix one ??
c ya
alvn
and i've never dropped at tape drive... nor disks...
- tapes get dropped because a klutz like me is swapping
out a tape w/ feeble fingers...
- i get itchy when i see people dropping stuff...
- even worst when i see them with rubber shoes touching
memory/disks w/o antistatic
- keep them away from me please... ehehe...
( its hilarious when they say they got shocked...
( and wonder why the machine stopped working...
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