SSD drives

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/28/2010 10:24 AM, David Kramer wrote:
>
> They may be more durable, but I've heard a hell of a lot more incidents=

> of people thinking they were backing up to their tapes when the writes
> failed every time silently for months, vs hard drives.  Unless you're
> verifying each backup, which doubles the backup time.
>
>  =20
>> Also, there's no such thing as an automatic hard drive changing robot.=
  So
>> if your backup doesn't fit entirely onto a single hard drive or tape .=
=2E. You
>> can still make a solution with hard drives ... but it becomes less cle=
ar
>> than the tape solution.
>>    =20
> That's because there's no such need for an automatic hard drive changin=
g
> robot, since you can have any number of hard drives connected at the
> same time to a computer.  And you can have the computer spin them up or=

> down as needed, or even fully power them off.
>
>  =20
IBM used to have (and may still have) and automatic tape storage system
where data would migrate to tape.

But there is always a need for system backups whether it is in a
commercial data center or at home.

--=20
Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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