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To: Andrew Shih who wrote (5447)	2/9/1998 4:44:00 PM
From: Joseph Chiu	Read Replies (1) of 7685

<<For data storage, isn't DAT the current preferred method? Also, if I'm going to back up each machine in the office, wouldn't tape be much, much cheaper to accomplish? Since it's for backup, there's no real need for good random access times.>> Andrew is right. The mass-storage of choice for backups would be DAT (or other tape media such as DLT or 4mm). The storage capacity of such tapes are on the order of $1/GB, with transfer speed between 500KB/sec to 2MB/sec. As Andrew correctly points out, the Quest would make sense where there's a need for good random access time. Most backup/restore scenarios do not. I have to admit to adding backups (on Quest's) as an afterthought. I was thinking more about jukebox applications for on-line data storage when my mind went off on a tangent and started thinking of backups.

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