Rich Braun wrote: > 6TB might sound like a lot, but you can just buy three 2TB drives for a total > of about $250 at today's prices, copy the data off to them, and toss them in a > friend's closet.
If you stay physical, maybe use something like http://us.startech.com/product/SAT3540ER2-35in-4-Drive-eSATA-RAID-External-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-with-Controller to put them in. (I've played with the two-drive version and it seems to work.) And buy enough copies of your setup so you can ping-pong changing data, always keeping one complete copy off-site, never put all your important data at the location of a single lightning strike, flood, fire, theft, coredump... > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full > of magtapes driving down the freeway at 60mph". ;-) > I love that quote, I remember when that quote was current, but I wonder whether I am old enough that we have finally made that station wagon look less impressive? Magtape reels (the media from the vintage of the quote) are pretty low density, a good net connection might stack up nicely. Lessee, Wikipedia suggests 170 MB per tape, a box of 12 is going to weigh quite a bit, but maybe they came that way, let's say 24-boxes fit in a station wagon, that puts us (in round numbers) at 50GB (equal to 4 Ipod Nanos in your pocket, with space for quite a few tunes left over). Wikipedia says Fios is 155Mb upstream...if I did my math right, that's less than an hour to send. Maybe the station wagon (original Wagoneer?) is big and has a stiff suspension and it can hold 48-boxes: well under 2-hours. To update the quote: Never underestimate the bandwidth of an SUV full of SATA disks driving down the freeway at 60MPH. (Heck, just a single 2TB disk sent overnight to the other coast...looks like just about equal to Fios upload speed.) -kb, the Kent who doesn't have Fios. P.S. Jeepers, one of those tough metal screwtop containers for keeping heart pills handy on a keyring...looks like it can hold well over one TB in micro SD cards: A convoy of ten to twenty station wagons (circa 1980). _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
