[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[David Willson]

Incidentally, ~this~ seems to be the lynch-pin.  You can drop a tape a lot
before it makes any difference at all.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Schock" <black at clapthreetimes.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: [CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?


> You have good points, but the one advantage I see with tapes is that they
> can generally take more physical abuse than a hard drive.
>
> > What does tape buy you over file-backups to a central, possibly
removable
> > hard-drive or six?  Does it cost less?  Is it faster, easier to acccess,
> > higher overall capacity, or what?
>
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