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Re: Will Hard Drives Edge Out Tape Drives?

2003-05-22 21:21:29
Subject: Re: Will Hard Drives Edge Out Tape Drives?
From: J M <jm_seattle AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:21:07 -0700
never.....the lifespan of a spinning is 10 years at best. tape is at least
30- and 1/2 of us will be retired by then and not really giving a shit!


From: DFrance <DFrance-TSM AT ATT DOT NET>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Will Hard Drives Edge Out Tape Drives?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:42:43 -0700

Yep... I recently visited a customer who's planning to use dark-fibre link
to "Level-3" offsite storage vendor;  primary pools stay local ('cuz
they're still paranoid about the whole prospect), but copy pools will go to
the offsite "vault", all disk-to-disk (in this case, using TSM
server-2-server virt. volumes for copy-pool data & DBbackups).

And, this is getting some play amongst customers wanting to transport the
disks offsite, as well --- abit riskier, considering what happens when you
drop a disk(?).


Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
mailto:don_france AT ayett DOT net (change aye to a for replies)

Professional Association of Contract Employees
(P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com)



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Reiss David IT751 (ext-CDI)
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:38 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Will Hard Drives Edge Out Tape Drives?


Anybody doing anything like this with TSM:

http://www.tomshardware.com/newsletter/vol3/16/70tb.html

Just a thought... but 70 TB for $435,000 on disk sounds interesting.  Just
get some small tape libraries for making offsite copy pools.  Of course,
you
would be on the bleeding edge of tech maybe.

David N. Reiss
TSM Support Engineer
david.reiss AT siemens DOT com
407-736-3912

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