On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:51:11AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
[snip]

> 70GB/4.7GB(per DVD) = 15 discs.
> looks like DVDs are down to less than $1/disk
> http://store.yahoo.com/blankcdcdr/dvdr-media-dvd-r.html); so I guess the
> economics have changed a bit since I last looked; but even so, spending $15
> (plus the amortized cost of a $3000 DVD autoloader) per backup is not
> something you'd want to do every night.

Build your own!

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html

> 
> I don't know how long it would take to burn those 15 DVDs either; but I'm
> sure good tape drives would be notably faster.

1.353MB/s * 4X DVD-R drive = 5.412MB/s, noticably slower.
or
CD-R, 150KB/s * 40X CD-R drive = 6MB/s

> Carl Soderstrom.

-- 
Matthew S. Hallacy                            FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified
http://www.poptix.net                           GPG public key 0x01938203

_______________________________________________
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org
https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list