Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb m.roth@5-cent.us:
Markus Falb wrote:
On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and time consuming to verify.
Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary.
Not that frequently.
I beg to differ. Hard disk failures are by far the most frequent hardware problem I encounter at work. And those external USB drives people are so fond of for backup are certainly not better than typical server drives in that respect.