On Wednesday 07 December 2005 13:51, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:57:23AM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > > > Can we stop Trolling here ? > > > Rodrigo, how many DLT tapes do you think he needs to backup > > > the 40gig HDD he has in there ? > > > > As I mentioned before, LTO is faster and cheaper these days. > > > > And if you're going to spend $2+K on a backup drive, you > > might as well go for the gold and spend $3-4K to get a new > > LTO-3 that holds 400GB natively, and backs up at a 80MBps > > rate (double each for typical 2:1 hardware compression). > > It is hard enough to find DLT units and tapes around here, Bryan, > that I don't even want to think about getting LTO stuff. > > How easy is to get LTO units and tapes in USA and other countries ? > How open is it (meaning: how many companies make it) ? > > []s I use LTO1 they are in plentiful supply and the tapes are much cheaper than DLT. i get tapes for about USD$28 each, they hold 100GB natively the tapes are readily available form many companies. IBM, HP, Sony, fuji, Imation, TDK to name a few. LTO is an open standard. and is supported by every tape vendor out there. this is the reason that prices are much better. its a more even playing field. you are not dependent on 1 or 2 vendors for all supplies. Dennis