Tape Backup Prices

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:42:43PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Why tape? It's so 20th century.  A 32 gig USB key is approx $65.  Try
> pricing out 32 gigs worth of reliable tapes, not to mention tape drives.
> Tapes are an expensive anachronism.  Check out the prices at Canada
> Computers or where ever.  This is bog-standard technology, not weird
> proprietary tech.

And an LTO-4 holds 800GB per tape.  That's a lot of USB stick swapping.

USB stick probably writes at 20MB/s for a good one.  The LTO-4 writes
at 120MB/s.

They are hard to compare.

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Len Sorensen
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