change... "2 small drives, 4gb-9gb" even
twenty years ago, would have
been the punchline of some techie in-joke.
Now - its a trip to Frys's and and carry 'em home in yer shirt pocket.
Yesterday I was at the opening of the local "Apple Store" (very cool by the
way), and I was amazed by the one storage device I saw. Sitting on the counter top, it
looked a lot like a tiny brick of metal and one end had a door that flipped open and
revealed USB and Firewire ports. It was a 20GB drive.
Personally for backups, I'm using a 200GB Firewire drive that I built. Though I'm
going to be hooking a DLT2000 drive up to my OpenVMS server the next time I have it down
(definite improvement over the TLZ06 4mm DAT it has).
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
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