[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 18:22 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > a 500 GB 2.5" drive in a USB carrier is about $100 these days.
> 
> Or if you want to go for the more industrial/geeky look, for that same
> $100 you can get a 1TB drive ($80) and a SATA to USB dock ($20):

*One* hard drive is a really terrible archival strategy,  you need at
least mirrored pairs in dual drive caddies.  This doesn't remain a cheap
strategy for long.  Or else two caddies who perform dual backups to.

> For comparison, here's the pricing for tape drives and tape cartridges:
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=291
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=63

DAT4 drives and media can be gotten quite inexpensively, are durable,
and the media last a l-o-n-g time.