Posted by Jeff Rife on 11/15/56 11:33

NunYa Bidness (nunyabidness@nunyabidness.org) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> >...and has all the same problems that hard drives have, and it's *not*
> >cheaper.
>
> It IS cheaper when one considers what one's time is worth.

For most people, their time is "free" compared to a $100 hard drive and
the cost of losing the data.

> A
> mirrored setup for a HD backs up itself.

Mirroring is not backup. Anyone who thinks so is just fooling themselves.
When the hard drive controller loses its mind an re-formats your disk,
you've lost your "backup".

> YOu must personally
> administer optical storage backups, and that labor intensive task is
> very costly from an admin POV.

If you are thinking about "admin" issues, then you don't care about the
cost of backup...you have a DLT tape drive with autoloader that backs up
your SAN. For personal backup, inexpensive is the key.

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