On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> > ...so that tape drives become more cost-effective than storing
> > everything on HD's?
>
> >From my past experience, 50GB SLR100 tape costs $100 while for that
> price I can have a 500GB disk...
Recently I asked our sysadmin at work how much an LTO tape (800 GB, i.e. 400 GB
native) costs, and I was quite surprised. I had expected O(100 EUR), but it was
much less.
But now let's start talking about the price of an autoloader... IIRC that's
something like 3000 EUR.
If you're a SOHO-user, you can probably get away with a few removable hard
drivers (and bring some of them offsite).
Pricewise, I guess you can get to the point were a bunch of HDs is still
cheaper than an autoloader with tapes, but it becomes more of a hassle to
manage your hard drives.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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