Hard drives cost abut $24 to $30 per TB. It is now the best backup storage. Backblaze offers "unlimited" backup storage for $5 per month this is even cheaper than hard drives if you have a LOT of data.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 3:18 AM Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < [email protected]> wrote: > LTO-6 drives can put 2.5TB uncompressed onto one tape and can be picked up > at a decent price since they're 2 generations behind the latest. LTO-7 puts > 6TB uncompressed onto a tape but used/surplus drives are still going for > over $1K.LTO-8 does 12TB uncompressed but you'll need to drop over $3K for > a drive. > I wouldn't go for any older than an LTO-5 with 1.5TB capacity. 1 through 4 > were 100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 800GB uncompressed capacities. > > LTO = Linear Tape Open, or as Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Quantum call it, > Ultrium. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
