On May 5, 2009, at 22:10 , Thomas Denier wrote:
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As far as I can tell, the most expensive part of such a configuration is the media, and LTO media will cost about a third as much as the most economical MagStar media (extended length 3592 volumes read and written with TS1130 drives). With the sort of workload described above I don't expect any difficulty staying within the recommended limit on the number of times an LTO volume passes over the tape heads. Are there any other reasons to be nervous about using LTO for long term archives?
look into the specs of the media. I'd think that in your case the tapes can be removed from the library once full, so you can store them under the best possible conditions. As far as I can see, under optimal conditions, LTO4 media can live up to 30 years, so there is no reason not to use LTO4. Of course, with TSM archive manager, you could trigger deletion of data 7 years after an event (patient 18th birthday), You could (and probably should) look into TSM Archive manager. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post [email protected] +31 6 248 21 622
