>pricewatch.com has it $1840 from PC Nation. Since Amanda does not
>yet span filesystems across tapes, the SLR 100 is a good choice
>for those who have to do block level backups of large disks.
Well here in Thailand, we have to deal with import taxes and so on :(
Now days I would even go for an SLR 400, native 200GB :)
>But what's the capacity of the linear tape autoloaders? 15 slot/2 drive
>8mm autoloaders fit in a 4U rackmount. And is the 5MB/s with or
>without compression?
I think Tandberg has a 4 drive autoloader, but I was not really
concerned because of the price. I could get one year salary for a guy
to manually change the tapes, for that price (and he would even write
the label and it would make one less unemployed guy).
5MB/s is the speed without compression, so I guess it is the tape
writting speed. I measured up to 23 MB/s with some data that allowed
heavy compression :)
>Well, actually a basic SLR100 is much less than $3K US, making it
>stiff competition against both 8mm and DLT. I wonder why SLR isn't
>better known or more commonly used.
Maybe because there is only one manufacturer? So less competition?
But it is definitively MY choice.
Olivier
