On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:35:03AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 11:23, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > > > > Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media vs single > > > > > layer.At the time DL was about $8/disk while compared to maybe > > > > > $1.00/disk for SL, not a good value, imho. The economics may have > > > > > changed. > > > > With the cost of hard drives dropping so much, I'm wondering why one > > would need to have __everything__ on optical media. Why not just have > > the CD1 (so you have all the docs) and then a local mirror repository on > > a (removable?) hard drive along with other backups? Or, for that > > matter, put the repository on whatever backup media you use (e.g. tape, > > a hard drive on another box, etc). > > Nothing wrong with that, but you can't put it in your pocket and take it with > you. >
A 2.5" drive in an Addonics Jupiter enclosure would fit in my pocket (but please don't put it in you __back__ pocket and sit down):-) Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
