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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."

6 of 465 comments (clear)

  1. I've been doing this for years by gpinzone · · Score: -1, Troll

    I never liked tape. oh and FP!

  2. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    About 96 TB!

  3. Wow by Colonel+Failure · · Score: 0, Troll

    That would take a while to fill with MP3s!

  4. YES - BUT DOES IT RUN LINUX? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Answer that smarty

  5. Finally!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Enough storage space for all my Pr0n!!

    woot!

  6. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hard drive back you up!