A backup tape drive is one peripheral where cost-cutting may not be in your best interest. A backup system needs to be as convenient as possible; if it’s a hassle, you won’t be inclined to use it.

Full Backup Window Fri9pm-Sunday Realistically looking at 24 hours to get all 55tb to tape. I am concerned with how many drives I will need, the network from drives to server, and the back-end ...

We are currently uin a situation where we must back up all the individual mailboxes every night and the amount of time it takes to back them all up (12 ...

Tape strategies vs. ransomware. If you are considering tape as part of your ransomware strategy, don’t send backups directly to tape. Tape drives write data at a certain speed and no slower.

A sampling of recent tape drive pricing from the web: LTO3 = $1,200; LTO4 = $2,500; LTO5 = $3,800 to $15,000; LTO6 = $4,500 to $18,000; Note: The higher prices for the larger drives are for those ...

This is why I say tape drives are fundamentally incompatible with the way people do backups today. No problem, say backup vendors! We’ll just interleave/multiplex a bunch of backups together to ...

The big boys of backup: 3 tape drives tested. With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace.

Tape Still Drives Backup Space The USB 2.0 version of the DAT 72 tape drive is list-priced at $749, compared with $599 for the DAT 40. They were expected to ship July 11.

The aptly named UNITEX USB LTO-9 drive offers a native capacity of 18TB on one tape with transfer rates of up to 300MBps, far more than any cloud backup or cloud storage service could ever reach ...

Furthermore, Hard Drive based solutions are MUCH faster than any Tape Backup solution. Having 8 SATA Hard Drives can operate at the same time and have an aggregate throughput of about five times ...

Tape libraries may actually cost more upfront than disk systems, but they can be scaled at a much lower cost for each incremental amount of storage, according to this article for SNW Online. Topics ...

To test backup and restore time and throughput, we used a test-bed consisting of a file server containing sample data, a connecting switch, and a backup server running the backup software.