On 21/04/17 15:55, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:
Hi all
Is DAT still a viable backup medium if you want USB and to avoid
optical disks?
I’ve got about 8Tb to backup and for various reasons don’t fancy: LTO,
BluRay, Cloud or HDD (i.e. NAS). I know DAT’s quite old (and I might
even be forced to use DAT160 because of cost) but if it’ll do the
archiving (write once read seldom) job I have in mind for 8Tb (even if
that’s a lot of tapes) I’d be happy.
Thanks
Rob
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Your biggest problem will be the amount of data you have to backup, 8TB,
an LTO 7 drive only does 6TB native (15TB compressed), In the quick
search I did I could only find a couple LTO 7 Desktop drives with SAS
interface but expect to pay upwardly of £2600 + SAS Interface card + SAS
Cable + Tapes so you are not going to have much change out of £3500.
A plain sata 3.5" 8TB Archive disk will set you back about £260. Buy a
couple of those and a cheap NAS enclosure for a lot less than £600
Take your pick
Tim
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