On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Yu Chen wrote:
> > Now if someone made an affordable tape drive and tapes that could backup
> > 200G per tape, that would be cool!
>
> You don't know? they have that already, AIT-4, LTO as I know.
I think the key-word here was "affordable"
I use DLT drives, which I think go up to 220GB native right now, ('m only
currently using 160GB native drives), but right now the cost of media at
about £60 each is about the same as a 160GB IDE drive.. Easier to manage
though, and the cost of the tape drive is still round about £3500.
But how valuable is your data? (As I keep telling my clients!!!)
I've tried to build servers that have a max. capacity of 200GB per
partition, but I have clients chomping at the bit for bigger partitions,
thn it becomes a PITA to backup to tape.
I don't think the requirement for tape backup is going to go away in the
near future, anyway. I just wish tape technology would keep up with disk
technology.
RAID is great, but it's not for archive and backup.
Gordon
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