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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Yeah, I currently use one external hard drive for one portion of my backups
routine but I was looking for an alternative to tape for taking backups
offsite.  I originally decided on DVD as a solution but found it to be
cumbersome.  Since I'm only backing up data, 35GB is plenty.

T O N Y  S P E N C E R
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf 
> Of ron thigpen
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:12 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Iomega REV
> 
> Tony Spencer wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone used one of these things yet?  It seems like the perfect 
> > economical backup solution.
> 
> I haven't used one, but I'd have to question the economics.  
> Iomega is fudging the drive size numbers in a couple of ways. 
>  It's not a 90GB cartridge.
> 
> It's nominally a 35GB cartridge if you buy into the nonsense 
> "marketing math" that says 1GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes 
> instead of 1,073,741,824. 
>   If you don't, it's a slightly more than 32GB cartridge.
> 
> And if you're backing up audio, video or image data you won't 
> get anything like a 2.6:1 compression ratio.  More like 1:1.
> 
> Current retail on the drive housing is about $300, with 
> cartriges going for about $50.
> 
> Can't see how this could compete with an external HDD or multi HDD 
> enclosure.     An 80GB 7200rpm IDE HDD can be had for about 
> $65.  These 
> are competitive in $/GB, save cartridge swapping, are 
> upgradable with commodity hardware, etc.  It will also have 
> to compete somewhat with 12x (and now 16x) DVD writers.
> 
> I could see how this would work if your backups fit on one 
> cartrige and you really wanted to send a backup offsite.
> 
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