[geeks] tape backup, revisited

[Phil Brutsche]

Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> Wow. How expensive are the tape drives?

A Dell-branded LTO-2 is $1200 (PowerVault 110T LTO-2-L):

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_110tlto2l?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

The HP equivalent is $1300 (StorageWorks Ultrium 232):

http://www.buy.com/prod/100-200gb-lto1-hh-232-16mb-s-5-25hh-int-lvd-u160-carbon/q/loc/101/201663342.html

Links may be wrapped.

One of those drives could buy 4TB of storage.

Of course, you could find an LTO-2 drive on eBay, but if you're data is
important enough to you to make backups you may not want to tempt fate
with a used tape drive ;)

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com