[game_preservation] Long-Term Storage

[Captain Commando]

How much are tape drives and media? I honestly can't find much information
on them except drive cost (about $1000). Based on hardware and media cost,
which do you think is better for small, medium, and large organizations?

-DM

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:


> Jerome McDonough wrote:

>

>>

>> The big data centers these days aren't bothering with a lot of tape,

>> you'll notice.

>>

>

> I'm sorry, but I work for a big datacenter (petabytes) and we certainly

> still deal with tape.  It's LTO-4, so it's big, but it's still tape. This is

> because you can't ship entire racks of SAN offsite for disaster recovery,

> but a daily shipment of tapes is no problem.

>

> I think you're correct in noting that the *small* shops don't do tape any

> more.  That's because removable hard drives, or syncing to an offsite

> facility, is much cheaper.  But it's not necessarily the fastest or most

> convenient.

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