Subj : Re: anyone recommend backup solution To : Rohan Beckett From : Geo. Date : Sun Apr 01 2001 04:38 am From: "Geo." When you have 100+ CD's from MSDN universal, plus beta installs etc, it's really easy to fill up large amounts of disk. Geo. (my sheep pics take up less space than Whistler) "Rohan Beckett" wrote in message news:3AC7349F.8058C1D2@peninsula.hotkey.net.au... > bah! > I get 40meg / minute when I do Ghost Multicast's across a network! > and I'm often imaging 10+ machines at once! :) > > Ghosting HD to HD, I often get about 100-200meg/minute > > and any home user who fills up 60 gig has too much pr0n, or games :) > > > RB > > "Geo." wrote: > > > > "Alan Cairns" wrote in message > > news:3ac54405@w3.nls.net... > > > A full installation of Windows2k with some utilities takes up about 700 > > MB, > > > and can be imaged in 15 minutes. The size of the partition makes little > > > difference. Drive Image knows the difference between used and unused > > space. > > > The resulting image file (from a 12 GB partition), is 660 MB. > > > > That's less than 50mb/minute. At the speed of drive image, it would take 21 > > hours to backup a 60gb drive. > > > > Hmm.. signs that drive capacity has seriously outpaced drive speed... This > > is gonna be a big problem. > > > > Geo. --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .