Jan, Now I understand the "Evil Twin" part of your name, $11,000.00 isn't dreaming, it's nightmaring. :) I did a froogle.com for "HP Ultrium SCSI tape drive" and it seems we're talking between $4,000.00 and $6,000.00 USD. The question I have is, will I ever be able to afford a fishing boat? I swear I'm going to follow through with my threat to sell the studio and franchise adolescent owned lemonade stands. There'd be alot more profit in it. ron --- "Jan \"Evil Twin\" Depner" <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ron, > > If you're really serious about having failsafe > backup, get a PogoLinux > StorageWare 3800 1.2TB IDE RAID (RAID 5 with spare). > Use rsync to > automatically back up your SCSI RAIDs to the 3800 > (crontab). Then get > an HP Ultrium SCSI tape drive to hook to the 3800. > The drives run about > 5K and tapes are down to about $80 per. They are > advertised to hold > 200GB compressed, 100GB native. You know how those > advertisements are. > I didn't believe it so I did my own tests at work. > Using byte compacted > (as opposed to compressed or bit compacted) sonar > data I got 170-180GB > per tape with an actual write speed to tape of > 13.465MB/sec. DDS just > ain't in the race at 1MB/sec for DDS3 or 2MB/sec for > DDS4 (those are > rated numbers, not actual). This setup would run > you about 11K. I > figured I'd throw this out here while we were > dreaming ;) > > Jan > > > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 05:36, R Parker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > --- Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > > gotta duck and cringe. :) Guys, with my > > > requirements, > > > > could it be done better and for less money? > It's > > > not > > > > > > Hell no, I'd use exactly the same setup. My > > > experience is that it costs > > > far more to back up a large disk system than it > does > > > to populate it with > > > disks anyway. > > > > Yikes! I'm using large ide disks to mirror the > scsi > > raid array. > > > > I've been thinking about switching our archive > > strategy from DD3 tape to rewritable DVD. DVD is > > probably alot more convienant for clients. > > > > The following is pretty far off the orginal topic. > > Reguardless, it's encouraging and exciting to know > > what we can expect from professional audio in > linux. > > BTW, my interest in producing audio with a linux > based > > environment is the Ardour mission statement where > > professional audio is a requirement. > > > > How effective an audio environment can we build on > > linux with jackd the high bandwidth, low latency > audio > > server? > > > > Earlier tonight, I ran the following tasks > > symoultaneously: > > *Rsync mirror via LAN > > *Mastering of stereo file on Mac via 100mb LAN, > atalk > > *'cp -R 2gig directory from channel A to channel B > of > > scsi raid controler > > *Ardour; playback of eight audio channels > > *switching virtual desktops and applications > windows, > > 'ctrl c + hold tab key infinitely' then 'alt + > f1,4' > > like a mad man, and then checking yahoo mail > > repeatedly > > > > jackd started with 'jackd -R -v -d alsa -d hw:0 -p > 512 > > -r 44100' > > > > During a twenty minute stretch with the above > tasks > > being done at the same time, I generated one xrun. > The > > "-p 512" is an exceptable latency for me because I > use > > an external mixing consol and build the studio and > > control room mixes from the input stages. > > > > Anyway, my new point is that professional audio > > production in linux is a reality. > > > > ron > > > > > - Steve > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, > forms, and more > > http://tax.yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
