I agree completely. We have customers doing this.  One catch, however, is
that you cannot easily store a backup off-site.

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions

At 03:29 PM 5/22/01 -0700, 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. Even with my DLT4000 tape drive, backing up 150GB is just
>not something I'm going to want to do very frequently, if ever. These
>drives are cheap enough that it is feasible to use mirrored RAID
>configurations, and have a spare drive on the shelf also. We're not
>quite there yet, 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. On second thought, if you include the cost of the tape
>drive--even amortized over a number of tape sets--we passed that point a
>while back.
>
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