Subj : To RAID or not to RAID?
To   : Digital Man
From : James Bradley
Date : Wed Feb 09 2005 11:47 pm

-=> Digital Man wrote to Takumi <=-

 DM>   Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
 DM>   By: Takumi to Angus Mcleod on Fri Aug 20 2004 01:26 am

 >  > Magnetic media here suffers from the environment.

 DM> Angus is referring to Barbados. But I live here in Southern
 DM> California and gave
 DM> up on tape drives (QIC-80 and the like) years ago after too
 DM> many failed restores. Very frustrating.

I just joining here and couldn't help but to imagine that a small heat source
could solve this. <?> You take a tape out of a heat generator - your tape drive
- and onto a cold damp shelf. Well, Duh!!! In an old cookie tin with a few LED
to produce a few ^ of heat should be able to drive off the moisture, no?
Forgive my ignorance, because I live in a semi-arid climate. BTW, you know that
those silastic packs need rejuvenating, right?
 DM> I like CD-Rs and DVD-Rs for back-up media, but obviously too
 DM> small for many gigs.

Double sided DVDs are expensive, but the singles shouldn't be that exorbitant.
Heck, 50 CD-Rs should easily hold 1G of compressed data a piece! Help me out
here. I must be missing something obvious. I love that 'pull an old desktop out
of storage, and beef up the HD' option, but unless the business is pedalling a
mailing lists, or dealing with media files in a transient way...

....And, nobody does incremental back-ups any more? 


.... To be, or not to be....Ah, what was the question?
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