From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F9ED172.3000704@xs4all.nl> From: Gert van der Knokke MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Drive gone bad, now what? References: <20031021171817.GA28462@mail.parplies.de> <3F985B2D.5060008@xs4all.nl> <16280.27367.874758.610758@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <3F98B691.7090902@webhackande.se> <3F9989C9.1070909@xs4all.nl> <16285.12868.20878.180441@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <3F9DB7D8.5080502@xs4all.nl> <20031028081933.GA1629@tykepenguin.com> <3F9EC8AA.7080603@xs4all.nl> <1067371611.4584.10.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> In-Reply-To: <1067371611.4584.10.camel@jayson.NTSERVER1> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Oct 28 14:30:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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