On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Wow, people still use tapes for backup? > > With current hard drive prices (200GB @ US$55, 500GB @ US$120) you can > just keep buying hard drives :) > > Surely tape price/GB is higher than hard drive price/GB...
Tapes can be archived for long time, drives can't. Drives need to be mounted into fairly bulky subsystems, tapes can be easily handled by robots. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
