From: Gert van der Knokke <gertk@xs4all.nl>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Drive gone bad, now what?
Date: Tue Oct 28 14:30:02 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9ED172.3000704@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1067371611.4584.10.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1>
Jayson Garrell wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:51, Gert van der Knokke wrote:
>
>
>
>>Where on earth do you backup 300 Gb on ? On tapes ? For the price of a
>>tape device including tapes which can handle this amount of data you can
>>buy a lot of harddisks...
>>
>>
>At my office we are currently using a OverLand DLT autoloader,
>LoaderXpress. It uses 10 40/80G tapes for a total of 400G native and
>800G compressed @ 6Mb/s. Yes it wasn't cheap but you can't put a price
>on someone else's data.
>
>
True, but what if I stick 2 IDE drives of 250 Gb in an external USB2 or
Firewire box I have 500 Gb and speeds of 20 to 30 Mbyte/s at a fraction
of the cost.
And those boxes can be put into a safe too.
Mind this, I'm just stirring up things a bit to get some perspective
view of cost versus reliability.
Gert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-28 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-17 15:10 [linux-lvm] RAID 1 on Device Mapper - best practices? John Stoffel
2003-10-17 15:29 ` Mike Williams
2003-10-17 15:51 ` John Stoffel
2003-10-17 15:56 ` [linux-lvm] " Måns Rullgård
2003-10-17 16:13 ` [linux-lvm] " Mike Williams
2003-10-22 8:02 ` wopp
2003-10-23 17:52 ` [linux-lvm] Drive gone bad, now what? Gert van der Knokke
2003-10-23 18:59 ` John Stoffel
2003-10-24 0:22 ` Rickard Olsson
2003-10-24 15:23 ` Gert van der Knokke
2003-10-27 8:59 ` John Stoffel
2003-10-27 18:28 ` Gert van der Knokke
2003-10-28 2:20 ` Patrick Caulfield
2003-10-28 13:52 ` Gert van der Knokke
2003-10-28 14:14 ` Jayson Garrell
2003-10-28 14:30 ` Gert van der Knokke [this message]
2003-10-28 15:36 ` John Stoffel
2003-10-29 8:54 ` Brian J. Murrell
2003-10-30 8:00 ` Petro
2003-11-26 10:15 ` Harri Haataja
2003-10-28 16:06 ` Glen Harris
2003-10-28 14:55 ` Chris Cox
2003-10-28 8:57 ` Mark H. Wood
2003-10-28 8:40 ` Mark H. Wood
2003-10-23 18:53 ` [linux-lvm] RAID 1 on Device Mapper - best practices? John Stoffel
2003-11-20 7:20 ` Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
2003-11-20 8:33 ` [linux-lvm] " Måns Rullgård
2003-11-21 13:02 ` Micah Anderson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-29 0:54 [linux-lvm] Drive gone bad, now what? Victor Tan
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