[mythtv-users] Hardware ideas

[James Satterfield]

David Wood <obsidian at panix.com> wrote: 
>On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 20:34, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> Backups? We don't need no stinkin' backups... :-)
>> 
>> I basically don't bother backing up most of that stuff. None of it is
>critical 
>> data, so I'm comfortable enough with just the RAID5 -- its just a media 
>> server. None of this junk is so important that I care to spend large sums
>of 
>> money to have a backup system for it (the array itself was costly
>enough). 
>> Anything I can't live without is on an entirely different server, backed
>up 
>> nightly. Though tape keeps increasing in capacity and dropping in
>price...
>
>Ahh. True. Though, sadly, not nearly as fast as hard drives. :)
>

Have you looked at the recent LTO (Ultrium) drives? They store 200GB/tape
and push 30MB/sec uncompressed. Not that slow.

James.