Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

[Sean Caron]

I began my first job ever working at a computer repair shop not soon after
those drives first hit the market and I recall them being pretty dodgy. I
replaced many Bigfoot drives when I was in high school! They were also dog
slow ... 3600 RPM, I think ...

The quality got better as time went on, if someone wanted to make the
calculated purchase to use one as a "data tank" and not care about the
throughput too much ... later Bigfoots were maybe okay for such an
application ... but they were always poor performers. I saw many home PCs
with needlessly crippled performance due to the inclusion of a Bigfoot
drive by the vendor trying to push GB/$.

Best,

Sean


On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > From: Sean Caron
>
>     > the worst thing on the market since the old Quantum Bigfoot
>
> Just out of curiousity, what was so bad about the Bigfoot?
>
>         Noel
>