Damn things are slow, capacity is limited, but yet, a drive + tapes will set you back a bunch of bucks. :disgust:
Why are tape drives so frigging expensive?
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I had the same question last night, I was looking for an efficient way to back up 500-750 GB.
Looks like there is no good way to do it, short of buying more HD's.
Viper GTS
Looks like there is no good way to do it, short of buying more HD's.
Viper GTS
was just looking into this the other day. decided to go with dvdr back ups. Longer shelflife and cheaper. but if needed to backup 20-30-150 gigs, tapes would be a lot easier than all those dvds. we really only need to BU about 3-4 gigs worth of stuff, but 20 gbs would save some hassle if things took a turn for the worse
Lets see ................
I run two SuperDLTtape drives at our office.
speed-------->@400MB/sec Youre wrong
capacity-------->one tape can hold over 200GB Youre wrong
and yeah they are very expensive but its business data backup goober
*******Theres is now a 300GB firewire/usb2 external harddrive that ships with retrospect (backup software) already on it for automated backups.........Its very sweet for a home machine.
And its relatively cheap........go get it
I run two SuperDLTtape drives at our office.
speed-------->@400MB/sec Youre wrong
capacity-------->one tape can hold over 200GB Youre wrong
and yeah they are very expensive but its business data backup goober
*******Theres is now a 300GB firewire/usb2 external harddrive that ships with retrospect (backup software) already on it for automated backups.........Its very sweet for a home machine.
And its relatively cheap........go get it
enormous capacity, more than DVD's, long shelflife, rare in home machines- mostly used in businesses for backups, they have money to spend for backup
Yeah, there are high end stuff of course, but I was referring more to the more affordable stuff. Those are slow, limited in capacity and still expensive. Not everyone wants or can afford the high end stuff.Originally posted by: Ogg
Lets see ................
I run two SuperDLTtape drives at our office.
speed-------->@400MB/sec Youre wrong
capacity-------->one tape can hold over 200GB Youre wrong
and yeah they are very expensive but its business data backup goober
Movies & music, no porn. Our media alone right now is up to ~250 GB, & we have a lot more waiting to be ripped/encoded.Originally posted by: NFS4
500-750GB? WTF? MP3's??? Movies??? PORN???
If it's movies, why not just by the real thing?
I expect our 450 GB span to be full in less than a year, & that does not include anything else we have stored on our server(s).
Biggest problem is that a lot of the tape backup systems rely on compression to get their storage capacity. The stuff we need to back up won't compress for sh!t.
Viper GTS
Not much available on the low end side of tape drive no money to be made in that segment.
Its all high-end enterprise class currently the highest speed/capacity drive is a SDLT 600 from Quantum
up to 600GB Compressed 300GB Native on 1 tape and Real world transfer speeds at about 1000-1500 mbs
but you talking about 6 Grand for that drive and a few tapes to go with it.
But the reason tapes are still around is tape's reliability and portability.
Its all high-end enterprise class currently the highest speed/capacity drive is a SDLT 600 from Quantum
up to 600GB Compressed 300GB Native on 1 tape and Real world transfer speeds at about 1000-1500 mbs
but you talking about 6 Grand for that drive and a few tapes to go with it.
But the reason tapes are still around is tape's reliability and portability.
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