Hi,
Question: 19 copies of the "same" data. Each copy 500GB. Tape library used a
storage. Would like a cheaper solution.
Let's start: 19*500GB is 9½TB.
Disk drives are up to 6TB today.
The data will fit in 2 disk drives - without using dedup and
compression.
Apply dedup and compression and the data will probably fit in a USB
memory stick (1TB).
The obvious answer is: This is 2016 and tape is dead since many years!
If you skip the tape library and use to modern design with container pools you
will save a lot of money. Both on the hardware (tape libs are not cheap) and
most important on the cost of licenses.
/Anders Räntilä
