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Today's DVD's store about 9GB with compression. The next generation will be four times that or more, but if Iomega can built a product around a recent nano-technology patent, we're looking at hundreds of gigabytes capacity - maybe 850 GB of fast, reliable storage. That rather exceeds my backup needs, and would be more than enough for a lot of small businesses.
As for things you can buy now (or soon), TDK has announced that they have a prototype 100 GB Blu-Ray DVD and Toshiba says you'll be able to buy a 45 GB unit soon. Those aren't tape killers, but they do open up more possibilities.
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Sat Jun 4 04:18:44 2005: Subject: BigDumbDinosaur
...Toshiba says you'll be able to buy a 45 GB unit soon.
45 GB is certainly enough to back up a small business UNIX or Linux server. Not sure how well it'd do with a Windows box and its elephantine file sizes.
While the potential capacity is attractive, what would really get my interest is the random access nature of such capacious archiving. Anyone who has ever had to sift through thousands of files on tape would appreciate that. Even the advanced file indexing system used by software like Lone Tar and BackupEdge doesn't produce true random access as obtainable from a mounted DVD-RAM filesystem.
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