RE: [TCLUG:6384] Cheap high-volume backups?

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

On  8 Jun, Yaron wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Dan Willenbring wrote:
> 
>> How about a 20 gig IDE HDD?  They are only $250-300 and it wouldn't take
>> long at all to transfer all that data...  It wont be much for scalability
>> and it's not very robust, but if your looking for fast, big and cheap it's
>> the route I would go.
> 
> Well, basically I already have four IDE devices - 3 HDDs and a CDROM.

Linux does support up to 6 IDE controllers, that means 12 devices. 
I've even seen a PCI card that has 4 controllers on it.  Should work
real good.
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