I'm getting 10GB tape cartridges at $20 each, 7.5 GB ones for about $15 -- compressed, of course. So the tape has come down. I'm paying $20 for the tape drive. There are problems running more than 4 IDE devices..... particularly without an IRQ to spare.
Many years ago there were only 8 IRQs available, and a kludge passed IRQ 2 through to another block of 8, making a total of 15 usable. Maybe we need the designers of motherboards to do that again so we could have 5 or 6 hard drives running at once.......USB 2. may help. Choppy At 09:22 PM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: >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. >================================================ ================================================ 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. ================================================
