On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:49:03 -0700, "Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the
Dark Remover\"" wrote:


Compression used to be necessary when HDDs were under a GB, but not
anymore. Compress your .JPGs, .MPGs and .WAVs, but don't try to
compress something that doesn't take up much room to begin with. HDD
space is a half buck per GB, fer crying out loud! Use it! Instead of
compressing the data, get a bigger HDD!

I wish I could afford more space. I've got a 250GB drive in my server,
and then I have two more 250GB drives that I use for rotating backups.
Once a year I freeze the backup to DVD. What I need is four 250GB
drives in a RAID5 in my server, but then I have to buy more drives for
backup too. The price quickly becomes prohibitive, and I'm not even
taking the cost of a SATA RAID5 controller (3ware?) into account.

Ouch!