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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. Offsite? by da'+WINS+pimp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One thing about tape systems that I didn't see mentioned was the portability of the media. Data recovery is still impossible if your backup burns up along with your server. I don't see anyone rolling one of these out to the offsite storage.

    Maybe you could do it with a big pipe between your backup location and your servers. But I bet that would cost a bundle in bandwidth.

    Also did anyone notice that typo on UPS (maybe they were on drugs USP)! It took me a good minute to catch it.

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  2. Re:Far more practical by Random+Frequency · · Score: 5, Insightful

    cdr/dvdr uses a chemical substration process to have data written to it, and is nowhere near as stable as magnetic tape.