Re: bkbits.net is down

Scott McDermott (vaxerdec@frontiernet.net)
Sat, 28 Jun 2003 04:08:40 -0400

Larry McVoy on Fri 27/06 20:19 -0700:
> > ever hear of tapes?
>
> bkbits is 45GB of data and growing. Tapes are completely
> impractical, that's why we have hot spares.

You've got to be kidding. My AIT2 tapes do 50G each,
uncompressed. Those are years old technology. I have a
Qualstar library only a few thousand dollars that has 20
tape slots.

> > how about SCSI?
>
> The raid system that failed is SCSI.

ok, well I stand corrected here, I thought you were using
IDE.
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