On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > > I am considering getting a Sony SAIT 3 with 500G/1TB tapes, which seems > > like a nice solution for backuping a whole server on a single tape. > > > > Has anyone used that hardware and can comment on its performance, > > linux-compatibility or otherwise? > > > > Is there a better solution out there? > > Better depends on what you want/need/can afford. Last time I was tape > shopping, I thought this would be a good compromise on the need/can > afford: > Exabyte VXA-2 Packetloader 1x10 > > Native tape capacity is 800gb. The only downside is, no magazine...it > stores the tapes in an internal carosel accessed from the front, one > position at a time. For a bit more $, they have magazine based tape > library systems with VXA-2 drives. for 1TB of storage ... i'd put the data on 4 disks ( raided ) and take the disks and put in nice bubble wrap and nice cushion :-) don't pop the bubbles and yup.. i want the fast restore of 1TB of data too which to me is more important than the $50 or $100 tape costs (plus the tape drive) vs $600 set of 1TB disk c ya alvin i keep wondering why people pay $150K for 1TB brandname tape subsystems .. :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
