RE: Cost of tape drives

[Peter Coffin <phcoffin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil writes:

> Hmmm - your example of backing up a 4GB PC with a 1MB Zip drive would
> certainly be a little difficult.  However, as a regular diskette holds
> 1.44MB I presume you meant a 1GB Zip drive ?   :-)

> I wouldn't say a backup option was not viable simply because you would
> have to change media 4 times to save the entire system.

40 disks...  Zip carts are 100Meg. They're a good size for floppy disks
these days, but still a *little* pricy for media. (approx US$15 each in
quantity.) Jaz drives are the 1G ones, and very pricey for media. (approx.
US$100 each and I don't know anyone personally that buys them in quantity.)

Peter H. Coffin
phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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