On 6/3/09 1:13 PM, "Tom Duerbusch" <duerbus...@stlouiscity.com> wrote:
> Once you get a VSE system up (via tape), you have VSE Virtual Tape available. > You can use that with the IP flavor (instead of the VSAM flavor) to store VSE > Virtual Tapes. Now, you can get a TB USB drive for around $1,500 and they are > portable. How about buying 3, (Grandfather, father, son), and copy the > offsite data tapes, this way? I'm still concerned about IP performance. The bottleneck will be the USB port speed, not the network. And where are you paying $1500 for a USB drive? Most of the vendors around here are ~$200 for 1TB USB drives. Consider also ESATA drives. They're significantly faster than the USB ones and generally not that much more expensive.
