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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (53488)	3/19/2003 1:19:24 AM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

That's a real problem. One cartridge for this $4,300 Super DLT tape drive may or may not hold all the data on a 200GB hard drive that you can buy at Fry's for $250 (after you get your mail-in rebate). megahaus.com{7579EC22-BCB1-4364-920C-6C75CD8740AF}&ic=TR%2DS23AB%2DYF&Tp= Tape just doesn't seem to be a viable option for home users any more, even though they keep selling $600 digital cameras that can generate a 30mb file for each image. Things definitely aren't in sync. I use one of those little removable-drawer ATA thingies with a couple of extra 160GB drives. It doesn't make me comfortable though; I've had a few of those cheap drives fail. --QS

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (53488)	3/19/2003 2:34:00 PM
From: Robert	Respond to of 64865

Backing up large amounts of data? I would.... 1) find a cheap unused computer with at least a 386 cpu. 2) put Linux onto it as it's drives and partitions are mapped logically, making swapping drives easy. 3) put quad 120GB drives into it, this uses all the IDE slots. 4) if it needs to be part of a Windows network, active Samba in the boot sequence to make the drives visible. 120GB drives were advertised today for $100 each at Fry's, and the computer could be had for virtually nothing. I've actually done the above with a 133Mhz Pentium and mirrored 60Gb drives. You should be able to keep costs down to $1/meg.