[geeks] tape backup, revisited

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:47:00PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> I just posted about the Quantum GoVault, but I misread the media cost.
>> It's $104 each, not $14 like I thought.  Damn, I knew it was too good to
>> be true.
> 
> You can *almost* buy 500G SATA drives for $104 nowdays.

Yeah, but I can't use a ton of them to archive projects, thrown them in a 
backpack, etc.

Hard drives were not meant for backup and it shows.

It sucks that tapes and other backup media have lagged so much.

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