On 11/01/2017 06:07 PM, Bob Macklin macklinbob@...
[hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
That is if they can afford it. An external disk can be cheaper.
...and nowhere near as reliable. And with people blindly buying 8TB
drives just because they're available, more data is lost now than ever
before. Do the math on the data loss rates; prepare to soil your skivvies.
And it depends on how much you really need to backup.
Assume everything on your drives will disappear at a random time.
Think of the impact that will cause. That will make the decision for you.
The LTO units I have been looking at are not cheap!
...which is why I recommended SDLT. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Dave McGuire