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A Backup Appliance Composed of High-Capacity Disk Drives

Overview Disk drives are now available with capacity and price per capacity comparable to (and in some cases better than) nearline tape systems. Given disks' superior performance, density and maintainability characteristics, it seems likely that disks will soon overtake tapes as the backup medium of choice. This paper outlines the potential advantages of a backup system composed of high-capacity disk drives and describes what implications such a system would have for backup software.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2001	Downloads	48
Format	White Papers
Topics	Hard Drives, Back-up, Tape Drives - Libraries

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