[NTLUG:Discuss] Data Storage recommendations wanted.
Kipton Moravec
kip at kdream.com
Thu Nov 16 00:04:56 CST 2006
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 18:24 -0600, steve wrote:
> Might want to consider demountable hard drives. Cheap drives are
> down to...what...$100 for a 300Gbyte drive? That's 30 cents per
> Gigabyte? That's cheaper than blank CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs - and
> they are much faster and more convenient to access.
>
> 700 CD's at 720Mbytes each is 500Gbytes if they are all full - but
> much less if they are mostly empty. That'll fit on a couple of
> hard drives.
>
> Get a proper sled mount so you can hot-swap them in and out.
>
That is looking like a good idea.
See my other post.
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