* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > > The problem with disks is you still have to archive them somewhere, and > they are bulky. I also dont know what studies are available on the > degradation of stored disk media over time. Not sure about that; DLT tapes are pretty bulky themselves; I think the difference between say a set of 4 DLT tapes and a single Maxtor 320 in caddy would be minimal. As for stored media, I think Maxtor are quoting 1M hours MTTF - (I hate to think how you measure such a figure) - for the 320G, and that is probably longer than I'd trust either the tape or the drive to survive. > Capacity is not a problem, 3ware do a 12 channel sata card, with maxtor > drives that comes in at 320x12 = 3.5Tb Well to me there are two questions: 1) Price with caddy/drive - especially when you need to have multiple backup sets. 2) Linux serial/ata working reliably with hot swapping. If both those came out on the right side then I'd happily swap to discs. Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM, SPARC and HP-PA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
