> On May 23, 2015, at 12:40, Steven M Jones <classic...@crash.com> wrote: > >> (after I sell a few more kidneys, that is) > > Careful hunting on eBay can produce LTO-4 capabilities (0.8/1.6TB) for not > too many vital organs. Just make sure you've got a fibre channel or SAS > interface to talk to it.
Right. Me being the smart, forward-thinking guy I'm not, I bought a nice, sexy Mac Pro, and then a nice little mid-range QNAP NAS that has neither fibre channel nor SAS capabilities before I determined that I really could use proper tape backup and started investigating what interfaces are suitable for that. There's one very nice-looking LTO-6 drive with a Thunderbolt interface that will plug into my Mac Pro. Lots of kidneys for that one! > >> ... but I'm still a bit suspicious of their similar (identical?) tape >> feeding scheme. All of my bad experience with things like QIC, DAT, etc. had >> led me to be very suspicious of tape systems other than 1/2" open reel. > > If you take a careful look at the TK and DLT mechanisms, I think you'll see > that they're an awful lot closer to an open reel design than any of the > cartridge designs (QIC, DAT, 8mm, AIT, etc). > > I'd never say they're perfect because that would immediately render all my > backups on any media unreadable. But if I have to trust a tape mechanism, > I'll stick with the TK-DLT-LTO line. Thank you for the reassurances about the mechanism family. That will help once I stumble over another cache of unguarded kidneys. :) -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/
