Re: [Veritas-bu] STK T10000 tape drive
2007-09-13 08:43:53
OK, so the LTO-4 drives have a hardware encryption option? How long have these been out?
On 9/12/07, Austin Murphy <
austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com> wrote:On 9/12/07, Brad Hillebrand <
brad.hillebrand AT gmail DOT com> wrote: > Does anyone have any experiences with the Sun/StorageTek T10000 tape drive?
I don't use them, but I did some research. One gotcha that I came across was the writing speed. They can only
write at either 120 MB/sec or 50 MB/sec. There is no in between. Your disk staging or virtual tape better be able to spit out the data at one of those rates or the thing will shoe-shine like crazy.
LTO-4 drives are likely to be easier to feed data and a lot cheaper.
I haven't compared prices with the hardware encryption options, but w/o the encryption the drive prices are something like $5k vs. $30k.
Also LTO-4 native capacity is 800 GB vs 500 GB for the T10k. Both can
write at 120 MB/Sec.
Austin
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