8 May
2007
8 May
'07
1:29 p.m.
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 15:26, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Huh? The bottom has pretty much dropped out of the DLT market.
264-slot DLT libraries *don't* sell on ebay for $10. (DEC TL896 aka ATL
ACS-2640's) Drives aren't that expensive either, and LTO is starting
to come down a lot in price.
Pat
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Now that I
have a tarabyte at home (1 trillion bytes in box small
enough to palm), I should set up an external SCSI box and check my
backup tapes from a few years back. I have CD backups from that
era as well (and copies of copies of it all), so I'm not worried
about one (?!?) bad tape ruining my day, but I should take
advantage of the equipment on hand to see what reads and migrate
the contents to newer media.
This is something that worries me a lot! I have lots and lots of
irreplaceable content and don't want to see it vanish. What can I
TRUST today for some two terabytes of data? Please, cheap options, I
still cannot afford a DLT :o)