Re: ssystem recovery strategy

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:05:16PM -0500, Tom Oehser wrote:
> 
> Although I have always been against this, the price of a DLT or AIT or LTO
> tape cartridge that can hold 100 gigs is just about climbing over that of
> a hard drive.  When you add in the cost of the tape drives that can do it,
> plus the better transfer speed and drastically better random access, I'm
> starting to consider reconsidering... ASSUMING that you really do install a
> hotswap and buy drives the way you would have bought tapes, it is hard to see
> the advantage  of investing in DLT or AIT or LTO.
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation for IDE hotswap bays?
> 
> What about getting the kernel to recognize the swaps?

Would USB 2.0 be fast enough? Say, compared to tapes, remember.


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