-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:17:48PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Dustin Krysak wrote: > >Hi there, I am pricing out a dell 840 (low end file server) that will > >run latest centos. > > > >Can anyone recommend a good tape drive/card combo with centos? The > >drives (to be backed up) in it will be a raid 0 - 500gb. > > Avoid all helical scan tape like the plague, including DDS/DAT, AIT, > 8mm, etc. > > For what you're describing, I'd probably go for a LTO3 (aka Ultrium), > and an appropriate u320wide scsi card (I prefer LSI Logic scsi > cards). LTO3 is 400GB native, 800GB w/ hardware 2:1 compression (I > find my typical file server backups fall about halfway between the two > extremes), and backup around 80MB/second if your disk system is fast enough. > > Or, plan B, I'd get a LTO2 (200GB native, 400GB compressed, ~24MB/sec, > 1.4GB/min) autoloader that holds 8 tapes... Dell calls this a PowerVault > 124T (I've got the HP version, they are all OEM from Quantum)... these > come LTO3 too, but with the autoloader the capacity per tape isn't as > critical. What about VXA ? Any comments ? - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFjKMPpdyWzQ5b5ckRAlOzAKCtEhjjgx6YY92c003LPI9LOsAaCgCgrUnK F3qelq6l1ZK2cHoS0ovkE70= =gcs/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----