[linux-lvm] Drive gone bad, now what?

[Gert van der Knokke]

Jayson Garrell wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:51, Gert van der Knokke wrote:
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>>Where on earth do you backup 300 Gb on ? On tapes ? For the price of a 
>>tape device including tapes which can handle this amount of data you can 
>>buy a lot of harddisks...
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>At my office we are currently using a OverLand DLT autoloader,
>LoaderXpress. It uses 10 40/80G tapes for a total of 400G native and
>800G compressed @ 6Mb/s. Yes it wasn't cheap but you can't put a price
>on someone else's data. 
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True, but what if I stick 2 IDE drives of 250 Gb in an external USB2 or 
Firewire box I have 500 Gb and speeds of 20 to 30 Mbyte/s at a fraction 
of the cost.
And those boxes can be put into a safe too.

Mind this, I'm just stirring up things a bit to get some perspective 
view of cost versus reliability.

Gert