How much would you pay for such a drive? Just a rough guess for my
orientation.

And sure, data loss would be way more painful / expensive than a new drive,
but I think right now the tendency is towards cutting down the amount of
data that gets backed up all the time. A lot of stuff hasn't changed in a
while, so maybe we can get the regular backup size down to ~10GB. We don't
need to backup data all the time that hasn't changed since last year. or
longer.


Alan Brown wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> 
>> If you can move to a DDS4 tape, you'll get 20GB uncompressed. DAT72
>> (DDS5 with a different name) gets 36GB. There is not much difference in
>> media prices these days if you can come up with a drive.
> 
> DAT/DDS are inherently unreliable, apparently due to the narrow tape
> width. (8mm helical scan tape formats such as AIT are fine)
> 
> You might want to price up a LTO or DLT drive - LTO has a number of
> features aimed at ensuring what's recorded on the tape is
> checked/error-corrected at same time it's recorded.
> 
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