[mythtv-users] Hardware ideas

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Fri Jun 25 13:27:35 EDT 2004


On Friday 25 June 2004 09:55, David Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, James Satterfield wrote:
> > Have you looked at the recent LTO (Ultrium) drives? They store 200GB/tape
> > and push 30MB/sec uncompressed. Not that slow.
>
> Bah. That's 100GB without compression, right? I remember way back when,
> you didn't need to change tapes to back up your HD...

The LTO-2 (Ultrium) spec is 200GB without compression, 400GB with.

> Not to mention the price. Well, I guess it all depends on how much you
> have to back up. These days my backups are IDE drives on removable trays,
> @ a fraction of the cost. :)

FireWire for me.

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