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The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 10:21 +0200, Ralf Müller wrote:
> >You can get 1TB drives?
>
> Ok - give it 3 month ... :
rumored not to be as reliable as "normal" sizes, yet.
> >Not robust. Not easy to handle (*FRAGILE*) and certainly NOT
> >electromagnetically robust; one good jolt of static electricity and
> >your backup is fried. Magnetic tape is amazingly resilient.
>
> Maybe you work in a high voltage environment, maybe in thunderstorm
> research ... but for what I know the extra bucks for tape infrastructure
> can be invested in something more useful.
In theory a HD electronics can break down. In the same circumstances with
removable media, the media itself can survive, you just replace the drive
and recover the data. There are more things that can break down in a
drive. In practice... :-?
By the way, I just seen for the home market HD external boxes with an
ethernet port: small cpu + some memory. Some support some kind of ftp or
http server, some have some kind of security, some support linux clients,
other only windows. Still too green, IMO, but interesting.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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