From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Subject: Re: [9fans] [reminder] pointer to Plan 9 FAQ Message-Id: <20010920144324.C1FC53F403@quanstro.net> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:43:24 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: eef80bb8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >Once the prices drop some more, DVD-RAM looks attractive at >9.something GB per disk. ya, but 160GB disk drives can be had now. and ibm promises 400GB disks within a year. i'm not going to back my machine up onto 50 dvd-ram disks, even if they cost $0.10 each. even with an infiniteX dvd-ram drive, it's going to take you 1/2 an hour to changes the disks. ... you know, this hasn't changed much since the days of backing up the 11/780s at school. it took about 60 mag tapes and 6 hrs (if you could pay full attention). erik