Tape Backup Prices

Tue Nov 30 23:09:45 UTC 2010

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 05:23:25PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> eSATA or USB3 should bring the harddisk option into the same ball
> park... okey, factor of 2.

You can certainly get harddisks that do 80MB/s.  Not sure about 120
(and some LTO drives are up in the 140 to 150MB/s I believe).

Of course to use an LTO drive you need either a SCSI or more likely
SAS connection.  Not something every machine is likely to have.

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Len Sorensen
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