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Posted by Doug Jacobs on 10/26/06 23:54
In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 George Peatty <peattyg47-1230@copper.net> wrote:
> Unless you're storing backup copies of all your movie DVDs, I'd say 9 GB is
> fine for storage in the near term. I have about 35 GB of MP3s that fit
> nicely onto about 10 DVDRWs, and I don't feel cramped for storage capacity.
> And, outside of some commercial backup enterprise, or the wish to copy
> movies, I doubt that many people have backup needs as large as mine.
I was thinking more along the lines of disaster recovery for your PC's
entire HDD.
Even using dual-layered DVDs, you'll need about a dozen discs per 100GB.
Even laptops come with more space than that nowadays.
Sure, as a home user, the only thing I'd really worry about backing up
would be documents and files like that. Not a big deal, and CDR/DVDR is
plenty.
However, if you're a business, you'll definitely be interested in doing a
complete backup of your server's HDD not just for offsite archive purposes,
but also for disaster recovery. It's going to be much faster to restore
from backup vs. freshly installing the OS, patches, applications and
settings - and you'll still have to recover your documents/data.
Hard drives continue to grow. Single disks will hit the terrabyte size
within the next 3-6 months, and with more and more systems using multi-disk
RAID arrangements, backup solutions are really struggling to keep pace.
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