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Depends on your volume. I don't know how much IT departments typically pay, but on Amazon, hard drives start at about $20-25/TB, whereas LTO-7 tapes are about $
by teraflop 8y ago
Depends on your volume. I don't know how much IT departments typically pay, but on Amazon, hard drives start at about $20-25/TB, whereas LTO-7 tapes are about $10-12/TB. That's a significant savings, but you need to be storing at least a few hundred TB before you recoup the cost of the tape drive.