On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > 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 I should clarify, that's 80GB per tape...so 800GB native assumes you have 10 tapes in the unit. > i keep wondering why people pay $150K for 1TB brandname tape subsystems .. I wouldn't pay that much...but I think the "common wisdom" is that tape is more durable/portable than disks. Once upon a time, it was cheaper than disks too...but that's no longer the case. It's part of why my plan to buy a bunch of Exabyte stuff got shot down and instead we bought P4's with 1TB SATA-RAID5 arrays to use as "backup servers". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - 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
