A Backup Appliance Composed of High-Capacity Disk Drives
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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. In this paper, we outline the potential advantages of a backup system composed of high-capacity disk drives and describe what implications such a system would have for backup software.
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