RE: Backups work! (when you've got 'em)

Royce Williams wrote:
> Tom Simes wrote, on 2/1/2007 11:50 AM:
>> As for backups, that's really a separate question. Commodity hard
>> drive prices have gotten so low that I personally can't justify
>> backing up to any other media (whether local, networked or both)
>> unless it's specifically for archival purposes. Even then,
>> the shelf life of WORM optical media is a concern (not to mention
>> format obsolescence).
>
> Speaking of that -- I've really got to get that crucial data
> off of my 10M MFM Winchester drive, while the controller is
> still working. :)

And to think I got rid of my RLL controllers a few years ago.
That would have been a great upgrade for ya, royce.

Ah, the days of plugging a 20Mb MFM drive onto an RLL controller,
just so you could eek out an extra 10Mb. Risky, sure, but when
it worked.. ooh, boy. all the space you ever needed...

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Received on Fri Feb 2 08:19:50 2007