"Steve Dirickson (Volt)" wrote:
>
> > Many of you may already know this, but IBM has a process that
> > can make 400 GB hard drives for desktop systems, 200 GB for
> > notebooks and a one-inch microdrive for PDAs that will have 6GB.
> > Who's going backup all of that data?
>
> The other hard drive. I'm currently putting together a new system, and
> the storage is going to be 4 75GB ATA drives in a RAID 0+1
> configuration.

RAID/Mirroring is fine, but no solution to the "ooops!" problem of, for
example, accidentally deleting a file; or an non-repeatable update in
place batch job screws up your database.  It's looking like backups to
disk, NAS, or SAN is starting to look better for short term backup
storage.

Still, disk isn't quite ready for long-term (archive) storage just yet,
although it's getting close (can you afford to have enough removable
drives for monthly/quarterly/annual archives?  How many sets do you
need?)

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>

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