Thanks for the numbers Chris! I guess I kind of anticipated that, which is why I suggested using a compressed form, sort of like zip/rar... Though if the data is mostly multimedia, then I guess it's pointless. Punch-cards, anyone? On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Chris Green <cgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm guessing you could get about a megabyte per sheet of paper this way. > So a 1TB drive would take up 1000000 sheets of paper. Looking at staples.com, > it looks like that would cost you in the neighborhood of $8000. The ink cartridges > would probably cost more, not to mention the cost of a place to store it :-) -- Majed B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html