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That is if they can afford it. An external disk can be cheaper.
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And it depends on how much you really need to backup.
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The LTO units I have been looking at are not cheap!
All depends on what your data is worth!
Backups of designs I¡¯ve done for customers, quite valuable, my 20 year old emails, not so much. But both are in the archives. :)
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Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: tape, was Re: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: HP Archives lost to fire.
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Untrue. It's for anyone who has data that needs backing up.
-Dave
On 11/01/2017 05:54 PM, Bob Macklin macklinbob@...
[hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
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> This stuff is not for consumers. Probably not for small business either.
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> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Dave McGuire Mcguire@... [hp_agilent_equipment]
> <mailto:Mcguire@... [hp_agilent_equipment]>
> *To:* hp_agilent_equipment@...
> <mailto:hp_agilent_equipment@...>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 01, 2017 2:38 PM
> *Subject:* Re: tape, was Re: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: HP Archives
> lost to fire.
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> On 11/01/2017 04:56 PM, Dave Daniel kc0wjn@...
> <mailto:kc0wjn@...>
> [hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
> > You can also look at DLT tape drives. I haven't worked on
> > non-IBM-mainframe tape for many years, so I haven't kept track of
> either
> > DLT or LTO. I believe LTO is in it's 8th generation now. I believe,
> > though, that LTO has surpassed DLT in terms of capacity and
> performance,
> > probably also in terms of reliability.
> >
> > Maybe someone out there has more current knowledge.
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> LTO-8 was just announced; I don't know if it's shipping yet. Those
> are hugely capacious tapes.
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> DLT topped out at 40/80GB, then gave way to SDLT. SDLT topped out at
> 300/600GB. There were a few variants like the DLT-S4 (800GB) and the VS
> series (80/160GB), but I never saw many of those around.
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> For cost-sensitive home archival use, SDLT-II media in an SDLT-600
> drive (300GB native/~600GB compressed) is probably the sweet spot. LTO
> media is still pretty expensive in any volume.
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> Many organizations have a "use once" policy for tapes, and modern
> tapes are quite robust. Lots of people take them home from work and
> liquidate them in batches on eBay. They've typically been used once,
> and are barely broken in. They are usually pretty trustworthy.
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> -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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