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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:Help me understand... by nick-less · · Score: 2, Redundant

    What happens when a tornado takes out the building holding the critical data AND the building holding that nice array of IDE drives 2 minutes apart?

    torados are quite rare in Tübingen ;-)

    however, a backup system like this protects you from (accidental) deletion of files and hardware failures. thats enough for many people..

  2. Re:Tape technology not keeping pace... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    $2000 on a system with 600GB of RAID-5

    Show me where I can get 5x600GB of HDD space for $2000, please.

  3. Re:Tape technology not keeping pace... by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Where can we get these magical TB tapes again?

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