On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > > dear all, > > > > what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month? > [...] > > Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of > 8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and > make a software RAID array out of them.
wow! they've come down that much in price! neato. just googled, and discovered 1TB hard-disks are also available, but dunno if they're available in india yet. >Splurge on another Rs. 1.5K > for a good USB/IDE interface, and you have instant access to the > stored data. so you're saying i could use a usb2 hub, plug in 500GB hardisks slapped into usb-casings connected to this hub, and run a raid? > > Regards, > Gora > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
