On Wed, January 20, 2010 04:48, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: > LTO media is still cheaper than equivalent sized disks, maybe a factor 5 > or so. LTO drivers cost a little, but so do disk shelves. So, now that > there is no big price issue, there is choice instead. Use it!
Depends on the scale you're operating at. Backing up my 800GB home data pool onto a couple of external 1TB USB drives is *immensely* cheaper than buying tape equipment. At enough bigger scales, I accept that tape is still cheaper. Makes sense, since the tapes are relatively simple compared to drives, and you only need a small number of drives to use a large number of tapes. I think hard drives are still cheaper at small-enterprise levels, actually. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
