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The Two types of Disk Drives

Jonathan Schwartz (CEO at Sun) talks about the enormous disk requirements of the film industry in his latest blog entry. I love the quote at the end,

As I was told by Jeff (parroting a storage executive), there are only two types of disk drives in the industry. Drives that have failed, and drives that are about to fail

That comment goes double for consumer electronics (iPod failure anyone?).  With PC crashing all around us it makes even more sense to backup your PC.

Posted by Joe Drumgoole

This entry was posted on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 4:02 pm and is filed under backup. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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