Hello Loui, Thanks for your message. My comments are inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loui Chang" <louipc.ist@gmail.com> To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 13:51 -0400, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
I would need two portable backup hard drives (one on-site and one off-site). I estimate a cost of $375 for a SCSI controller card together with a (used) VXA tape drive. Plus the cost of tape cartridges, of course. So I'll have to see what 2 x 2.5" portable HDDs will cost. 1 TB capacity drives should be sufficient.
Portable external usb hard drives are comically cheaper if you consider price per terabyte.
That's good news.