Another question : tape drive

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thu, 8 May 2003 12:59:59 -0400 (EDT)
Chris Marget <chris at logsoft.com> wrote:

> > any ideal for tape drive?
> 
> my idea is that they're pretty expensive to buy, expensive to feed,
> and painfully slow...
> 
> i don't know if it will work for you, but the price and performance of
> ide disks is hard to beat.  removable ide drive carriers are kinda
> clunky.  i bought one of these instead:
> 
> http://www.wiebetech.com/specsheets/pdf_dup_sdd.html
> 
> now i can do my backups to my imac running os x.
I gave up on tapes years ago. I back up to a hard drive. 
IMHO, removable harddrives are better than fixed hard drives. In the
past:
I've had the tape drive (commercial 9 track) brun a hole trhough a
backup tape. I've had PC tape drives trash my backups. My strategy is
that 2 hard drives are not going to crash simultaneously (which is not a
100% valid assumption). 

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