On Monday 04 December 2006 11:23, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > > > Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media vs single > > > > layer.At the time DL was about $8/disk while compared to maybe > > > > $1.00/disk for SL, not a good value, imho. The economics may have > > > > changed. > > With the cost of hard drives dropping so much, I'm wondering why one > would need to have __everything__ on optical media. Why not just have > the CD1 (so you have all the docs) and then a local mirror repository on > a (removable?) hard drive along with other backups? Or, for that > matter, put the repository on whatever backup media you use (e.g. tape, > a hard drive on another box, etc).
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