On 05/27/2013 11:42 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>>> Your requirements are not common. So, most people on the list tried to
>>> entourage a common best practices.
>>
>> I suspect they soon will be as a cheap 3TB SATA HDD already costs as
>> much as 2.5TB LTO-6 tape.
> 
> For that I would still go tape. A LTO tape has bit error rates of 1
> bit in 10^17 and a cheap desktop hard drive has bit error rates of 1
> bit in 10^14 not to mention that hard drives are way more fragile than
> tapes and certainly does not last anywhere near as long as a tape.

I read the glossy brochure, too, QualStar's salesdroids send me one
every month. And I believe every word. 'Cause it's tape manufacturer's
marketing department saying that, Shirley they know what they're talking
about.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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