>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:36:46 -0500, Brian Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Sigh, I wish I could go with new drives (or even a new TS3310 > library), but as the political climate around here is "no new > libraries", I think even new drives would be a bit of a stretch. :( How much space are you talking about purchasing? I suppose the absolute floor of capacity in "A 3494" is only about 3 TB (300x10G volumes), and if you've got copy volumes in there it's somewhat less. If your -total- primary occupation is indeed so low, then you're in a range where permanent disk storage isn't nuts at today's prices. But 3x3592 drives are only ca. 60K new; that'd get you more than 100 TB even in just your L frame. And keep in mind that tape capacity in a library degrades fairly neatly; you've got all kinds of magic you can do with checking volumes in and out before stuff falls apart. With all-disk, you're going to just run into a wall. This isn't "New Libraries", this is "Leveraging existing enterprise investment, and bringing it forward into the new millenium". - Allen S. Rout
