[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[Steve Petrie, P.Eng.]

Hello Loui,

Thanks for your message.

My comments are inline below.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loui Chang" <louipc.ist at gmail.com>
To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie at aspetrie.net>; "GTALUG Talk" 
<talk at 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.