On Oct 11, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
> I've never been a subscriber to massive hard drives. > > What does the average user do with all that space? Who actually > uses 1000GB? Then you have the question of backing up. The larger > the storage the larger the back up needed. Try doing any professional CD or DVD authoring or duplication without having huge hard drives for "works in progress" storage. Backup strategies are very much an individual preference. Some three decades ago, it took three magnetic tapes (1600 bpi) to backup a disk volume (mainframe-speak for a hard drive). Some two decades ago, it took about the same number of tapes (but 6250 bpi) to backup a disk volume. Backups on such linear media is now darn near impossible, and more intelligent methods are now required. I backup to a drive which is identical in size to the drive being backed up: 1 TB to 1 TB. Works for me ... possibly wouldn't work for others. The data contained on my drives is considerably more valuable than the cost of the drive itself. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
