I go with Jeff's thoughts. About two months ago, I bought an IBM 60GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 drive for $180 with free shipping. This is 1/5 the cost/GB of the Ditto tapes alone, not considering the cost of the tape drive. Say you want to back up 16GB total - You have an $80 drive and 8 - 2GB tapes @ $30 = $240 for a total cost of $320 to back up the 16GB with tape. It would cost you $180 with the hard drive and you would have over 70% of the drive still free for other things that you might want to do. In addition, the hard drive is much faster.
Hard drives are really cheap these days. It is truly incredible. Bill DePierri ----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hebert Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [brluglist] Backup Tape Drive A hard drive can't match the reliability and cost per GB of tape. At least for now. John Hebert --- Jeff Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I paid around $80 for the 2Gig Ditto Tape backup > that I had. The tapes were > close to $30 a piece. Junk I say. That stuff was > junk. A seperate hard > drive sounds a lot better to me. Or possibly a Jaz > drive. Have you thought > of that? > Jeff > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chopin Cusachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:16 PM > Subject: RE: [brluglist] Backup Tape Drive > > > > > > An IDE card requires an IRQ. Until somebody comes > up with > > a way to create additional IRQs, that won't help. > Had to ditch > > a Promise ATA66 card for lack of an available IRQ. > > > > I'm talking about a parallel port tape drive for > about $20, tapes > > in the $10 to $20 range.... > > > > Choppy > > > > Choppy > > > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
