Tape Backup Prices

Kevin Cozens kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 17 06:03:46 UTC 2010


Christopher Browne wrote:
> Good tape drives have always been expensive (e.g. - some number of
> thousands of dollars), and good tapes have always been expensive (e.g.
> - on the order of $100).

Many years ago I was using 4mm DAT to do backups using tape drives that had
a SCSI interface. In the few years I used the tapes, I never had one go bad 
on me. I stopped using tape backups after the three tape drives died on me.

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