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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds