On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:43 AM, compdoc wrote: > At $45 per tape for 320G of storage, it competes with hard > drives. In case of tape drive failure, the tapes still work > with the new drive. And with scsi or sata based tape drives, > speed is not a problem. ...or, with 750GB drives today, you could more than double that storage for 25% more per unit. Tapes are more durable than hard drives, but they're hardly impervious, and they certainly aren't higher density when you start backing up many TB.