On 05/27/2013 11:42 AM, John Drescher wrote: >>> Your requirements are not common. So, most people on the list tried to >>> entourage a common best practices. >> >> I suspect they soon will be as a cheap 3TB SATA HDD already costs as >> much as 2.5TB LTO-6 tape. > > For that I would still go tape. A LTO tape has bit error rates of 1 > bit in 10^17 and a cheap desktop hard drive has bit error rates of 1 > bit in 10^14 not to mention that hard drives are way more fragile than > tapes and certainly does not last anywhere near as long as a tape.
I read the glossy brochure, too, QualStar's salesdroids send me one every month. And I believe every word. 'Cause it's tape manufacturer's marketing department saying that, Shirley they know what they're talking about. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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