[geeks] tape backup, revisited

[Mike Meredith]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:48:34 -0500 (CDT), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> >> I just posted about the Quantum GoVault, but I misread the media
> >> cost. It's $104 each, not $14 like I thought.  Damn, I knew it was
> >> too good to be true.
> >
> > You can *almost* buy 500G SATA drives for $104 nowdays.
> 
> Funny how things keep repeating.  We're nearly back to the age of
> using removable disk packs for near-line storage.

Nearly? Work is about to get a 16Tb disk array to supplement an
existing 4Tb array which will be used as a cache for the existing tape
library. 


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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
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