An lto-2 holds 200 gig of compressed data. If one is only backing up 5 or 50 gig of data, one does not need a stacker. LTO-3 tape drives are out and they hold 400 gig. len
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matt Frye Sent: Fri 6/10/2005 2:20 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Tape backup jukeboxes? On 6/10/05, Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jukeboxes are going to be very expensive. (We just spec'd out an 8 tape > LTO-2 juke for ~$9000 storage space... 1600/3200 GiB) > > However, used DLT drives on Ebay run ~$50 and can do 20/40 GiB... Less expensive jukeboxes can be found, but when LTO-2 is involved it's going to expensive (even single drives). I'd advise calling World Data Products. http://www.wdpi.com/ Dan Savage 800.553.0592 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
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