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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:32:01 +0200
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: I give up
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Wow, people still use tapes for backup?
> 
> With current hard drive prices (200GB @ US$55, 500GB @ US$120) you can 
> just keep buying hard drives :)
> 
> Surely tape price/GB is higher than hard drive price/GB...

Tapes can be archived for long time, drives can't.  Drives need to be
mounted into fairly bulky subsystems, tapes can be easily handled by
robots.

  Ralf