It may not be for everyone, but I find ebay a real treasure chest for 
enterprise-level backup devices. I recently picked up a Dell PV132T with 
LTO-3 drive and 24 slot autoloader for £500. I was the only bidder. 
Works absolutely fine.

Paul



bjoern_busch wrote:
> 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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