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I was looking into the same thing recently. The price is right ($10/TB tape vs $13/TB HDD) and it’d be nice to have fewer HBAs and SAS cables, but having to swa
by NavinF 5y ago
I was looking into the same thing recently. The price is right ($10/TB tape vs $13/TB HDD) and it’d be nice to have fewer HBAs and SAS cables, but having to swap the tapes manually every 2TB (every 6 hours?) kinda ruins it for me. An automatic tape library would be ideal, but I couldn’t find any in the 100TB range that are cheaper than spinning rust.
- numpad0 5y agoI have a 2U sized LTO2 robot that might have collapsed from stuffs on top by now, but it seemed to have a standard 5" bay drive inside with a passthrough adapter marshaling the drive and the loader mechanism. I wonder if a more recent drive can just be dropped into those libraries or if they need firmware supports.