You can get removable carriers for IDE hard drives, which make very practical cheap, fast backup.
-- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Monday 01 April 2002 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an opinion gathering session I've not done any research now. > I am going to be in the market for a home disk backup system in the next > few days (1). I'm wondering what technologies people around here use, > would like to use, and what would be recommended. > > I imagine that practically nothing is going to meet my criteria, > so don't bother filtering in advance, just throwing them out so > you know my opinion of 'effective'. > > My 'effective' criteria: > - Cost (< $1000 for backup unit, < $1 per GiB of media) > - Speed (5-15+ MiB/s) > - Automatable (backup media large enough to backup reasonable amount > of data, say 20 GiB) > - Reusable Media (prefer not to have stacks and stacks of backup media > from ages ago). > - Relocatable (easy to move the backup system between machines) > > > This I don't particularly care about: > - Need not be online, would prefer to be able to lock away in a safe. > - Seek times can be horrible, in the few minute range. > > > Backup options I vaguely know of starting out: > - CDRW > - CDR > - DVD RAM > - DVD RW > - DVD R > - 8mm tape 'DLT' > - 4mm tape 'DAT' > - Buy more hard drives > - Iomega 'Jaz' drive > > Thanks, > Mike > > 1: One of my IBM Deskstar drives started making rude noises this > morning, when the morning updatedb ran. It has 4 drive errors > logged into the SMART log... it claims only 510 Power On Hours > but it claims no relocated sectors. > I have too much important information on this drive to consider > losing it, so I'm going to have to take the drive offline until > I find a backup system and/or a replacement drive. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech