On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Justin Piszcz wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Neil Brown wrote:
On Friday June 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that there is no cost effective backup available.
One-liner questions :
- How does Google make backups ?
No, Google ARE the backups :-)
- Aren't tapes dead yet ?
LTO-3 does 300Gig, and LTO-4 is planned.
They may not cope with tera-byte arrays in one hit, but they still
have real value.
- What about a NUMA principle applied to storage ?
You mean an Hierarchical Storage Manager? Yep, they exist. I'm sure
SGI, EMC and assorted other TLAs could sell you one.
LTO3 is 400GB native and we've seen very good compression, so 800GB-1TB per
tape.
The problem is in small business use, LTO3 is costly in the 1-10TB range, and
takes a lot of media changes as well. A TB of RAID-5 is ~$500, and at that
small size the cost of drives and media is disproportionally high. Using more
drives is cost effective, but they are not good for long term off site
storage, because they're large and fragile.
No obvious solutions in that price and application range that I see.
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bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
In the 1-10TB range you are probably correct, as the numbers increase
however, many LTO2/LTO3 drives + robotics become justifiable.
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