Re: Backing Up 100 Terabytes of Data

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:33:49 EDT, "F.M. Taylor" said:

> Granted, anything except tape or disk would require massive amounts of media
> (like 26000 DVDs), but its a choice.  First choice would be LTO4 tapes at
> about 30-40 each for 100 of them ($3000),

Plus tape drives.  Those LTO4 drivers are a chunk of change a piece.

Then you need to pay for a robot to load the tapes - either mechanical or
biological. I recommend mechanical - they don't miss tape mount requests during
lunch breaks as often. ;)

No matter how you slice it, it ain't gonna be cheap.

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