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<blockquote data-quote="fsck" data-source="post: 15526" data-attributes="member: 1950">That apple dig hurts...But actually, they are shared on the ISDN (single line, 2B channel 128k aggregate).&nbsp; The modem is back-up for when ISDN is out.The real problem, since you were polite enough to be my only taker, is a lack of adequate backup hardware!&nbsp; How the hell, as a consumer/home user, do you backup 200GB+ of disk?!I suppose I could schedule CD-R burning, but a human still has to swap the discs... and at five minutes a disc that's something like 24 hours straight worth of backups.&nbsp; A whole day lost each month to backups?&nbsp; I think not.You could purchase redundant disk, but then you have serious issues with mechanical failure and integrated units (i.e. if the disk heads fail your media is bad since it is all one piece).&nbsp; Plus, some of my systems already don't have enough IDE ports left -and I'll be damned if I'm going to open all the PCs up twice a month to swap disks around.&nbsp; And even then it wouldn't help me with the laptops.The only real solution is tape, which is tremendously -nay, hideously expensive.&nbsp; DAT tapes are still the industry standard but even 20GB cost big $$.&nbsp; And the robots are even more expensive.This isn't just a home problem, actually... here at Sun we are looking at 500GB SCSI disks by the end of '03 (for scarcely $1k a pop).&nbsp; If you were to fill a whole rack of Sun T3 arrays with 500GB disks... &lt;shudders&gt;... with 18 drives per array, 4 arrays per cabinet... a 72&quot; cabinet gives you over 35 TERRABYTES worth of storage.&nbsp; Total cost is maybe $200k.Where, I ask, WHERE is my 35TB single-cabinet tape silo?&nbsp; The answer, dear readers, is that it resides in disguise, in the form of an 8000-pound, multi-million dollar StorageTek Powderhorn silo -the largest they produce.This concludes your enterprise IT rant for the day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fsck, post: 15526, member: 1950"] That apple dig hurts... But actually, they are shared on the ISDN (single line, 2B channel 128k aggregate). The modem is back-up for when ISDN is out. The real problem, since you were polite enough to be my only taker, is a lack of adequate backup hardware! How the hell, as a consumer/home user, do you backup 200GB+ of disk?! I suppose I could schedule CD-R burning, but a human still has to swap the discs... and at five minutes a disc that's something like 24 hours straight worth of backups. A whole day lost each month to backups? I think not. You could purchase redundant disk, but then you have serious issues with mechanical failure and integrated units (i.e. if the disk heads fail your media is bad since it is all one piece). Plus, some of my systems already don't have enough IDE ports left -and I'll be damned if I'm going to open all the PCs up twice a month to swap disks around. And even then it wouldn't help me with the laptops. The only real solution is tape, which is tremendously -nay, [I][B]hideously[/B][/I][B][/B] expensive. DAT tapes are still the industry standard but even 20GB cost big $$. And the robots are even more expensive. This isn't just a home problem, actually... here at Sun we are looking at 500GB SCSI disks by the end of '03 (for scarcely $1k a pop). If you were to fill a whole rack of Sun T3 arrays with 500GB disks... <shudders>... with 18 drives per array, 4 arrays per cabinet... a 72" cabinet gives you over 35 TERRABYTES worth of storage. Total cost is maybe $200k. Where, I ask, [B]WHERE[/B] is my 35TB single-cabinet tape silo? The answer, dear readers, is that it resides in disguise, in the form of an 8000-pound, multi-million dollar StorageTek Powderhorn silo -the largest they produce. This concludes your enterprise IT rant for the day. [/QUOTE]

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