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Plus you need to physically manage the tapes, it is hard work. The alternative being to provision a bunch of hard drives in a NAS and from there it is all softw
by cm2187 8y ago
Plus you need to physically manage the tapes, it is hard work. The alternative being to provision a bunch of hard drives in a NAS and from there it is all software/automated (up to a certain capacity).
- imtringued 8y agoTape drives aren't exactly fast either.
- arcticbull 8y agoRandom access times aren't great -- to say the least! However, raw bandwidth isn't bad, LTO-7 gets 750MB/sec (faster than SATA3) and LTO-8 looks to improve on that.