--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Darlene Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Darlene Anderson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AP] firewire is more and more disappearirrlinng > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 10:39 AM > In 1984 or 1985 I purchased for my > Amiga computer a 30 mb (yes that is mb not gb) external hard > drive and thought I was in heaven. It cost several > hundred dollars - things sure change. Now I have 8.240 > TB in my computer and 12 TB externally. My first hard drive was a 5 megabyte, full height, MFM Tandon. After installing MS-DOS and all the software I had, it was still half empty. Then I did a full backup, onto 360K floppies. Never have done a full backup of any hard drive in any of my computers since that one time. (Other than when upgrading to a bigger drive.) I remember when drives hit the $1 per megabyte level, with the first 500 megabyte drives. It's impossible to spend $500 on a single bare drive today. If some company would put a few brain cells together, they'd realize there's a market for an AFFORDABLE desktop LTO4 or LTO5 drive. LTO tapes are relatively cheap but the LTO4 and later drives are insane prices, even for used ones. $1,500 or more for a tape drive?! The tapes can be found for $40 or less. Used LTO1/2/3 drives can be found for decent prices, but their uncompressed capacity has lagged behind newer hard drives. I consider it a 'holy grail' to have an offline or near-line backup that can copy a hard drive to a single piece of media which costs less than the drive being backed up. Extra bonus points if it does it without compression. AFAIK, Linear Tape Open is the only one that can do that, except for the LTO drives costing more than several complete PCs. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
