On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:51:11AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: [snip] > 70GB/4.7GB(per DVD) = 15 discs. > looks like DVDs are down to less than $1/disk > http://store.yahoo.com/blankcdcdr/dvdr-media-dvd-r.html); so I guess the > economics have changed a bit since I last looked; but even so, spending $15 > (plus the amortized cost of a $3000 DVD autoloader) per backup is not > something you'd want to do every night. Build your own! http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html > > I don't know how long it would take to burn those 15 DVDs either; but I'm > sure good tape drives would be notably faster. 1.353MB/s * 4X DVD-R drive = 5.412MB/s, noticably slower. or CD-R, 150KB/s * 40X CD-R drive = 6MB/s > Carl Soderstrom. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list