Carl: Only issue with hard drives is that they should be spun up once a year or so. Of course as cheap as flash units are, if you needed something stored for several years time, a memory stick of comparable size to a DAT 72 tape (which holds 36GB natively) is probably under $50. I actually have a good friend who is an I/T executive at Iron Mountain, so if you can't find out that answer from other channels, let me know off the list. MS On May 31, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Carl G. Riches wrote: > > On Tue, 31 May 2011, Michael Scully wrote: > >> Jackson: >> >> Unless you need to exchange data with other tape drives, I'd SERIOUSLY forget about tapes. When you can get USB attached 500 GB hard drives for $59.99 at any WalMart, why would you want tape? >> >> You can reformat the hard drives with ext3 partitions and write to them direct. Most of the tape backup utilities will support USB hard drives as well. >> >> But when I last had a customer with an external drive like that (on a 1U rack server), it did just become /dev/st0. >> > > Does Iron Mountain now accept disks for secure off-site media storage? > > Carl G. Riches > IT Manager > Department of Biostatistics > Box 357232 voice: 206-616-2725 > University of Washington fax: 206-543-3286 > Seattle, WA 98195-7232 internet: cgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
