[ale] Recommendation for off-line storage?

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Wed May 10 20:15:24 EDT 2006


If this stuff is really, really archival and RO in nature, how about a 
file server with a WORM drive?  See 
http://www.etech4sale.com/products/partinfo-id-153146.html.



Greg Freemyer wrote:

>On 5/10/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>For really repetitive data like traffic data for cell phone (airsage.com),
>>compression should do wonder, if CPU cycles are not at premium.
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>This class of tape drive does compression in the drive hardware, so no
>CPU cycles required.
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>Also, the compression algorythm is defined in the LTO standard, so you
>can write data on any brand of drive and read it on any other brand of
>drive.
>
>Greg
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