On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:02:01PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar writes:
> 
> >anyway IDE drive sometimes connected as backup is reliable storage
> >compared to any tapes.
> 
> Yes, with redundancy (certain RAID levels) and otherwise good
> hardware in the disk server, it's quite reliable.  Of course you
> can't lock it up in a tape safe.  That's a flaw of this approach.
> If your business depends on it, maybe a combination of methods
> is the best approach.  Here, in academia, the RAID solution
> seems to be good enough but we'll see how it'll work out in the
> long run.
> 
> >and DLT tapes as i see costs quite lot
> 
> Here in Germany, the 40/80 Gig DLT tapes cost as much as a small
> IDE hard drive of about the same capacity.  And the costs scale
> linearly with IDE drives with larger sizes but not with tapes
> (in my experience).  And larger drives will drop in price while
> DLT media mostly remains the same.

LTO costs less per gig than DLT, but the drives are more expensive.

Ben