Re: Cassette Capacity

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On Dec 1, 3:22 pm, Andy McFadden <fad...@fadden.com> wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > With 1.5TB SATA drives now regularly on sale for less than $90, it's
> > hard to justify any other medium.
>
> I don't know.  At 1500bps, you can back up a gigabyte to cassette tape
> in a little over two months.  And at roughly 500KB per 60-minute cassette,
> you'd only need a couple thousand of them.
>
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If Andys calculations are correct, then it's either one 1.5TB drive or
1,500,000 C60 tapes.
The cheapest C60 I could find was about $1, so that only comes to
$1,500,000. A bargain!

So I'm with Andy on this one...Cassette tapes seem like the way to
go.