Don't know about 1Tb on a *single* tape, but you could look at the IBM LTO tape drives...
The one I used to use had a 7 tape auto-changer, with 100Gb per tape - assuming 1 tape was a cleaning tape (auto cleaning is VERY nice), and a 2:1 compression (whether you like compression or not - personally, I don't but the company did - I wonder why they can't read their tapes ?), that gave you 1.2Tb storage. Take the cleaning tape out and you have a potential 1.4Tb. Tapes, unfortunately, are not cheap, and because of the fine track tollerances, they tend to be picky about how they're handled and stored - having said that, I had one failure on a tape in the 18 months we were using it, and that's when the junior dropped the tape from about 6 feet... As for the drives, I believe we paid about $26k for it, but you should be able to do better. Jon => Hello Sluggers, => => I will like an advise on a backup system, I need to back up => about 300GB now and in about 11 months time, it will add up => to 4/5 TerraB. This data needs to be kept safe for about 3 => years. And there after it will be the same every year or => potentially increase by about 30% or more. => => I thought of tapes, is there ( Market) tapes that can hold => at least 1 TerraB? What is the highest available? Also => thought of hot swappable SCSI drives? is there any IDE => drives that are also hot swappable? This last one seems to => be cheaper than SCSI. => => Can you guys please suggest me a couple options that are => upgradable? and maybe a bold figure as to how much will I => be looking at? => => Thanking you in advice. => => John => => -- => SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ => More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug => -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
