Re: Archival cost of hard drives

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:59:24AM -0700, Mike Kobb wrote:
> This is what I do.
> 
> In my experience on my HiPix, though, a movie is about 17GB/hr because it's
> about 8.3GB/hr.

But are they stripping null packets and unneeded PIDs?

> 3) I'm not really sure that the IDE connectors on drives are intended for
> lots of re-plugs.
> 
> I initially planned to just buy a removable drive system and buy trays for
> each drive, but I could never find one I liked.

I run almost all of my IDE drives in trays.  I used a $12 no-name
model for several years, moving a drive between systems at least once
a week without problems.  Lately I've "upgraded" to some $20
CompUSA-branded trays that have more metal parts and extra fans, and
so far so good.  Granted these are not hot-swap themselves, but since
you can power down an enclosure separate from the computer that's
almost the same thing.

                                                  -Dave Dodge