Not sure if it is important to many people, but tapes take a lot less electricity than online disks. --David Dougall On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jon Lewis wrote: > 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 > > > - 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
