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400 MB/s, not Mbps. That‘s getting near S-ATA III (SATA-600) limits. Also a LTO-9 tape can store up to 45TB of uncompressed data (18 TB uncompressed), so you
by Tepix 2y ago
400 MB/s, not Mbps.
That‘s getting near S-ATA III (SATA-600) limits.
Also a LTO-9 tape can store up to 45TB of uncompressed data (18 TB uncompressed), so you better have a fast storage volume ready with your data when you’re writing your next tape.
- rbanffy 2y agoThe one thing worth remembering though is that you are not forced to write all of the 18TB of data, so your staging drive can be significantly smaller, but considering the tape alone costs about half of what a large hard disk costs (at least at my local office supplies provider), unless you are using more than 50% of the capacity, you'll be better off by writing it to a HDD (at least for backup purposes). Long-term archival, however, is a different thing and tape is a much better medium for that. It's a shame DOTS [1] doesn't seem to be going anywhere... 1- https://group47.com/what-is-dots/ https://group47.com/what-is-dots/
- Tepix 2y agoI'm seeing LTO-9 tapes (with 18TB of uncompressed capacity) starting at 85€ whereas 18TB HDDs start at 309€, so here the price difference is at a factor of 3.6x