How much are tape drives and media? I honestly can't find much information on them except drive cost (about $1000). Based on hardware and media cost, which do you think is better for small, medium, and large organizations?<br>
<br>-DM<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jim Leonard <<a href="mailto:trixter@oldskool.org">trixter@oldskool.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The big data centers these days aren't bothering with a lot of tape, you'll notice.<br>
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I'm sorry, but I work for a big datacenter (petabytes) and we certainly still deal with tape. It's LTO-4, so it's big, but it's still tape. This is because you can't ship entire racks of SAN offsite for disaster recovery, but a daily shipment of tapes is no problem.<br>
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I think you're correct in noting that the *small* shops don't do tape any more. That's because removable hard drives, or syncing to an offsite facility, is much cheaper. But it's not necessarily the fastest or most convenient.<div class="Ih2E3d">
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