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Hard Drives Instead of Tapes?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-hell-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tom's Hardware News weekly news letter has a very interesting article about Dr. Koch of Computertechnik AG who won the contract to build a RAID backup system for the University of Tübingen. Dr. Koch took several standard entry-level servers, such as the dual-Athlon MP, and add modern components and three large-caliber IDE-RAID controllers per computer, and a total of 576 x 160GB Drives."

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  1. Re:Sound fine, but... by TopShelf · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    They dodge that issue rather gingerly:

    "There's one aspect in which Dr. Koch's backup system can't keep up with tape solutions: storing the backup medium in another location after the backup has been completed.

    As long as this isn't necessary, Dr. Koch's backup system offers some rather unique advantages."

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  2. Re:Wow! by RealityMogul · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's fine for MP3s, but where am I suppose to store my DivX "backups"?