>> >> No experience, hadn't heard of RDX. When I looked them up I was >> struck by the cartridge price compared to external USB or eSATA drives. >> For similar capacity the cartridges seem 5x the price. What is the >> advantage of the RDX setup over just swapping in and out external >> drives? > > Sales hype? I dunno.
I think at this point it's only a solution in search of a problem. Even though most servers don't come with either eSATA or USB3, it's generally cheap to get a card that works. We are still running amanda in a combination of virtual tapes on internal disk and LTO tapes for long term storage (I have a script that once a month dumps all most recent level 0 backups to tape). I am guessing my next setup will ditch the tapes for external drives. --- Markus A. Iturriaga Woelfel, IT Administrator Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Tennessee Min H. Kao Building, Suite 424 / 1520 Middle Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-2250 [email protected] / (865) 974-3837 http://twitter.com/UTKEECSIT
