Mark Schoonover wrote:
Cost is another factor. An Exabyte LTO3 1x7 loader is MSRP $6500, with 20 tapes $1130 in a pack. My 4TB backup server cost just under $5000 at the time, cheaper today. Then, you have the daily admin of flipping tapes. Disks run without intervention once configured, and it's nice to have especially if you have employees working over the weekends, or on holidays.
HP's version of that same LTO3 1/8 autoloader is around $5000 street price (sometimes under $4500). The Quantum OEM version ("Superloader") is about the same.
of course, 20 LTO3 tapes is 16 terabytes. and you can have another 16 terabytes in archive for another $1100 or whatever. That 1/8 autoloader holds 8 of them, which is 6.4 terabytes online with no operator intervention required until it comes time to ship a box of tapes to the offsite vault.
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