On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:05:16PM -0500, Tom Oehser wrote: > > Although I have always been against this, the price of a DLT or AIT or LTO > tape cartridge that can hold 100 gigs is just about climbing over that of > a hard drive. When you add in the cost of the tape drives that can do it, > plus the better transfer speed and drastically better random access, I'm > starting to consider reconsidering... ASSUMING that you really do install a > hotswap and buy drives the way you would have bought tapes, it is hard to see > the advantage of investing in DLT or AIT or LTO. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for IDE hotswap bays? > > What about getting the kernel to recognize the swaps?
Would USB 2.0 be fast enough? Say, compared to tapes, remember. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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