Tape Backup Prices

Tue Nov 30 22:23:25 UTC 2010

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:25:41AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

eSATA or USB3 should bring the harddisk option into the same ball
park... okey, factor of 2.

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William
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