From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] WORM recomendations? From: nigel@9fs.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-lqvrwxpjmhbhuiylugzseoqwvk" Message-Id: Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:59:37 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4d87944c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-lqvrwxpjmhbhuiylugzseoqwvk Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The capacity may exponentially exceed requirements, but will the lifetime? One thing which makes WORM worthwhile is the increased confidence it gives that the data will be there tomorrow. --upas-lqvrwxpjmhbhuiylugzseoqwvk Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by cpu; Tue Jan 16 14:42:23 GMT 2001 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 4AB33199EA; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:40:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com (plan9.bell-labs.com [204.178.31.2]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 047AD199EA for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:39:17 -0500 (EST) To: 9fans@plan9.bell-labs.com Subject: Re: [9fans] WORM recomendations? From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010116143917.047AD199EA@mail.cse.psu.edu> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:39:14 -0500 With 82GB IDE drives going for about $300, WORMs aren't worth it. Buy a monster disk drive and configure it as your backup device. By the time it fills up, buy another; it'll be 500GB for $200 then. -rob --upas-lqvrwxpjmhbhuiylugzseoqwvk--