Gavin,

You didn't include 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch floppies!  (sigle sided!!!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Scott [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: IBM - 400 GB hard drives by 2003


Steve writes:
> [...]but we're close to the point where a second drive for a
> mirror is cheaper than the media required to back up the drive to
> something else.

Ah, interesting point.  For fun I just threw together some numbers for
today's media cost to perform a single backup that new 400GB drive in your
next PC (uncompressed).  I grabbed what looked like relatively cheap media
prices off of pcconnection.com:

Media Type # of volumes Approx. Cost
---------- ------------ ------------
Floppy          277,778   $91,444.80
Zip disk          4,000   $40,000.00
DLT 8000             10      $699.00
DDS 3                34      $441.66

Pretty scary...

G.

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