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Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:32:01 +0200
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>
Subject: Re: I give up

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Wow, people still use tapes for backup?
> 
> With current hard drive prices (200GB @ US$55, 500GB @ US$120) you can 
> just keep buying hard drives :)
> 
> Surely tape price/GB is higher than hard drive price/GB...

Tapes can be archived for long time, drives can't.  Drives need to be
mounted into fairly bulky subsystems, tapes can be easily handled by
robots.

  Ralf
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