[ILUG] Cheap tape drives

[Kenn Humborg]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:32:38PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> > I think a good setup [for the uncle] will be RAID 1 for system,
> > RAID5 or maybe raid 0+1 for the paranoid. DAT or maybe AIT aswell
> > as CDbackups [CDR not CDRW]. Its a very small office.
> 
> :)
> 
> but he's got 100G+ of data to backup.. (he's got a little server with
> 3 50G IDE disks, and his new desktop PC came with a 70GB disk)
> 
> with DAT he's going to have spend significant amount of time each
> evening or morning changing tapes.

Worse again.  He'll end up going over the 20% rated duty cycle for
the drives and they'll wear themselves out.  Believe me, it happens...

Later,
Kenn