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[ysengrin]

University uses banks of IDE drives for backup solution (70Tb worth). The backup system was installed back in 2002; I'd be curious about a follow-up to see how it's worked out.

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[tiado-ab.livejournal.com]

I really hope that they have some kind of fault-tolerance solution implemented there. Losing 70TB wouldn't be very good.

[fenrirwolf.livejournal.com]

I bet it works just fine!

As long as they never lose power and those drives spin down...

I spun down some MetaStor RAIDs back at my last job in '00 -- They had been on since the late 90's. Needless to say, half the drives failed to spin back up once I re-applied power. (Thankfully, I didn't care about the data. And it was fun RMAing 60 9G SCSI-2 drives. :)

[ex-tjcoyote112.livejournal.com]

I don't know about using HD's for corporate backups, but that's how I do my own personal backups. So much cheaper than tape, and only hard drives offer the speed and capacity I need.

(I'm getting ready to move to a new backup solution -- one main 500GB for data, with two offline backups.)

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

Yep, I've done that myself. Don't know how well it'll work with Vista's "you changed hard drives five times so you must re-authenticate your product" schtick.