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But the cost of the drives is extravagant. Not anywhere near the price point for individual use. And for enterprise use, a tape drive doesn't make sense unles
by derekp7 10y ago
But the cost of the drives is extravagant. Not anywhere near the price point for individual use.
And for enterprise use, a tape drive doesn't make sense unless it is part of a tape changer. Fortunately, the drives are so expensive that the cost of the changer is marginal in comparison.
- dom0 10y agoEven then, you can get a used (still good, for a couple years at least) LTO-5 drive for around 200-250 EUR. The tapes cost about 20-25 EUR each and are good for 1.5 TB -- with a small tape library you'd break even over hard drives beyond maybe ~20 TB. Remember, as disks get better, so will tape - the technology isn't the same, but similar enough that advances in one will certainly cause similar advances in the other.