On 11/8/06, marco chiapusso <mchiapusso at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I need to change my tape drives tecnology. I'll swap from LTO2 to IBM Jaguar
> tapes drive (700 GB!! not compressed..impressive!!!).The goal it's also to
> move even the historical data on LTO to the new support
...
> What do you think about that?

The IBM TS1120 drives cost over $35,000 each.  I can't find any
vendors selling the 700 GB tapes and the 500 GB tapes are over $150
ea.

For the cost of 2 of those, you could get
- 1x  200 slot Quantum library ($20k) with
- 4x  FibreChannel LTO-3 tape drives ($10k ea), and
- 100x  LTO-3 tapes (~$7500).

LTO-3 drives can use your LTO-2 tapes so there is no requirement to
copy them over to new tapes.

Austin