hi ya we can build an 8-drive ( 120GB at $200ea ) or ( 160GB at $300>? each ) 1U box...about 0.960 - 1.28 TB each backup server ( 1U ) for under $2,500 in parts + cost of raid setup/testing is up to the user - am thinking the 1.6TB of storage for 10K lira(?) is too much i prefer disks to backup data.. so that its always a semi-warm backup ( tapes have always been way tooo slow to find a file and to restore have fun alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Illtud Daniel wrote: > Effrem Norwood wrote: > > > In addition, HSM software costs > > something (even if you write it yourself) on top of the tape infrastructure. > > One customer of ours was quoted 40K per TB of HSM *software* alone. > > I've got 25TB uncompressed of HSM here, and it's cost us (ex VAT) > roughly: > > £10k for the first 1.6TB (on NT, DLT library) > £18k for the next 6.0TB (on NT, LTO library) > £45k for the next 18.0TB (on Solaris, LTO Library) > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
