Luke S Crawford wrote: > Tim Kirby <[email protected]> writes: > >> In a flash of deja vu all over again, the question was "do I know of any >> (preferably OSS) tape library management apps for a linux box with an >> attached library for simple tape archival use. A very quick google >> didn't pop up anything obviously useful, but that's always colored by >> the keywords used... >> > > Are there any tape systems that have a lower cost per gigabyte than > 1TB or 1.5TB sata disks? > You don't offer much context to your question, but the answer is most assuredly yes. It depends how you want to use your tapes.
1 1TB enterprise seagate SATA disk is $200-$245 online (actually about 900GiB because they use power10 TB instead of power2) 1 LTO4 (800GiB) tape is about $48 in quantity one (significantly less in bulk) depending upon how many you buy and what your requirements are, tape is still significantly cheaper than disk, especially once you add in power for <x> TB of running disk. Tape wins in offsite archival as well. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
