USB Tape drives
Michael Scully
agentscully at flexiblestrategies.com
Tue May 31 23:02:47 UTC 2011
Carl:
Only issue with hard drives is that they should be spun up once a year or so.
Of course as cheap as flash units are, if you needed something stored for several years time, a memory stick of comparable size to a DAT 72 tape (which holds 36GB natively) is probably under $50.
I actually have a good friend who is an I/T executive at Iron Mountain, so if you can't find out that answer from other channels, let me know off the list.
MS
On May 31, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Carl G. Riches wrote:
>
> 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
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