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87 GB storage from WD & IBM
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“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get outâ€
–The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
I heard about this on the financial news Monday morning. Ruth's pixie dust will increase storage density five fold!!! Since then, every one of my engineering friends have been bringing this up with me in discussions. It sure is getting a lot of people's interest!
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I've become convinced that HDD is the current best solution for backup. We ran into that problem in trying to backup HDTV recordings which are quite large. You have to have them on disk to play them back (most tape systems are too slow, I think DLT will work) and it takes way too long to move them from tape to disk for later playback. You also need a jukebox to store such large amounts of data which adds to the expense of the media. The cost of HDD is getting so low that its become an inexpensive and fast solution that can address the capacity requirements of storage backup.
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I am with xortam. Where I work, we simply compress and store our files onto a harddrive mounted in a bracket, on a dedicated backup computer (pentium 90). We can use the slower, cheaper drives. Our nightly backups are in excess of 10gig and we use 30gig drives at the moment. There is always more than one backup of our work.
In my experience, hard drives are far more reliable than tapes, and you can get several of them for the price of a decent tape drive.
80% of people think I should be in a Mental Institute
I can't wait to see what effect this will have on a large (2-3 terrabyte) EMC Symmetrix unit that currently uses 18/36gb drives.
As far as tapes go, the LTO (utltrium), and Super/Ultra DLT both weighing in at ~100GB are the only things large/fast enough to saturate an LVD channel.
Gaming Rig.
- Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
- AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
- 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
- 6.1 Digital Audio
- Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
- 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
- Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
- Creative 8x DVD-ROM
- LS120 IDE Floppy
- Zip 100 IDE
- PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
- NEC FE950
- DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks
When we actualy reaches those figures, the prices will be in the same range as the current.
If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
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