USB Tape drives
Carl G. Riches
cgr at u.washington.edu
Tue May 31 22:50:58 UTC 2011
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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