USB Tape drives

[Carl G. Riches]

On Tue, 31 May 2011, Michael Scully wrote:

> Jackson:
>
> 	Unless you need to exchange data with other tape drives, I'd SERIOUSLY forget about tapes.  When you can get USB attached 500 GB hard drives for $59.99 at any WalMart, why would you want tape?
>
> 	You can reformat the hard drives with ext3 partitions and write to them direct.  Most of the tape backup utilities will support USB hard drives as well.
>
> 	But when I last had a customer with an external drive like that (on a 1U rack server), it did just become /dev/st0.
>

Does Iron Mountain now accept disks for secure off-site media storage?

Carl G. Riches
IT Manager
Department of Biostatistics
Box 357232                      voice:     206-616-2725
University of Washington        fax:       206-543-3286
Seattle, WA  98195-7232         internet:  cgr at u.washington.edu

>
>
> On May 31, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Allen, Jack wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>>        Has anybody used the USB 4mm Tape Drive that IBM offers?
>>
>>        Does it appear as /dev/st0 or some other device name?
>>
>>        Does it function just like a SCSI attached 4mm tape drive?
>>
>> -------------------------
>> Jackson C. Allen
>> McKesson Provider Technologies
>> 5995 Windward Parkway
>> Alpharetta, GA 30005
>> (404) 338-2023
>
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