[geeks] tape backup, revisited

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:48:34 -0500 (CDT), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Bill Bradford wrote:
>>
>>>> I just posted about the Quantum GoVault, but I misread the media
>>>> cost. It's $104 each, not $14 like I thought.  Damn, I knew it was
>>>> too good to be true.
>>> You can *almost* buy 500G SATA drives for $104 nowdays.
>> Funny how things keep repeating.  We're nearly back to the age of
>> using removable disk packs for near-line storage.
> 
> Nearly? Work is about to get a 16Tb disk array to supplement an
> existing 4Tb array which will be used as a cache for the existing tape
> library. 

...and the platters are removable?




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