On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 00:04, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > hi ya petro > > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote: > > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk > > > > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user > > > > --- has all the data... no way for stealing corp secrets > > > > > That's innovative, but impractical. > > > > No, it's a great idea, but you can do the same thing even more > > safely with tapes. > > good point.. give um tapes.... most people dont have an expensive > drive sitting at home .... to go poking around on it > while everybody can poke around on an ide disk
And I'll be bringing home my greater-than-terabyte-sized enterprise database (to poke around with it..) some time in the near future??? Not likely. Besides, I don't have a $3M Alpha w/ VMS & Rdb licenses in the back bedroom, either... > > > A terabyte is 10 AIT-3 tapes. How many disks is it? > > > > 10 120 gig IDE drives. > > > > Each with lots of electronics to fail. > > yuppers... and with a tape drive.. you only fix one ?? The likelihood that 1 of 10 mechanical devices will break in a given timespan is far more likely than the likelyhood of just one device breaking. > and i've never dropped at tape drive... nor disks... > - tapes get dropped because a klutz like me is swapping > out a tape w/ feeble fingers... To quote you: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk > > > > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user > > > > --- has all the data... no way for stealing corp secrets By definition, you must pull those spindles in order to give them to the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar. So, not only might _you_ drop the disks, but the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar may also drop them. -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]