On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Brad Hillebrand wrote:

> 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
>>
>

I think he was referring to the T10K drives.
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