-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:57:23AM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > > Can we stop Trolling here ? > > Rodrigo, how many DLT tapes do you think he needs to backup > > the 40gig HDD he has in there ? > > As I mentioned before, LTO is faster and cheaper these days. > > And if you're going to spend $2+K on a backup drive, you > might as well go for the gold and spend $3-4K to get a new > LTO-3 that holds 400GB natively, and backs up at a 80MBps > rate (double each for typical 2:1 hardware compression). It is hard enough to find DLT units and tapes around here, Bryan, that I don't even want to think about getting LTO stuff. How easy is to get LTO units and tapes in USA and other countries ? How open is it (meaning: how many companies make it) ? []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDlz1BpdyWzQ5b5ckRAtwvAJwJqZ951mL4Rivi6Q18kgAm6/99GgCfT718 k62zODY8H3x05iSLZl7tXZQ= =o6ps -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----