[TriLUG] Tape backup jukeboxes?

[Chris Knowles]

Just to be clear/pedantic...


LTO-2 holds 200 UNcompressed, 400 compressed.  Or so says the stack of
them on my desk.

CJK

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:19 -0400, Len Boyle wrote:
> An lto-2 holds 200 gig of compressed data. If one is only backing up 5 or 50 gig of data, one does not need a stacker. LTO-3 tape drives are out and they hold 400 gig. 
>  
> len
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> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org on behalf of Matt Frye
> Sent: Fri 6/10/2005 2:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Tape backup jukeboxes?
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> On 6/10/05, Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org> wrote:
> > Jukeboxes are going to be very expensive.  (We just spec'd out an 8 tape
> > LTO-2 juke for ~$9000 storage space... 1600/3200 GiB)
> >
> > However, used DLT drives on Ebay run ~$50 and can do 20/40 GiB...
> 
> Less expensive jukeboxes can be found, but when LTO-2 is involved it's
> going to expensive (even single drives).
> 
> I'd advise calling World Data Products.  http://www.wdpi.com/  Dan
> Savage 800.553.0592
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