tape v hard disk

[Hardcore Games]

tape and hard disks are slugging it out at the corporate level, Tape robots are expensive so only a few operations use them. Tape robots may have 12-18 tape drives which can handle a fairly good volume of data.

A dual LTO-9 tape box with TB4 interface would be

tape can manage 500-600 MB/s for LTO-9 while SATA hard disks are 300 MB/s but high density servers can mount 45 disks per server and racks of servers slug it out with racks of tape robots.

disks use more power than tape but cold servers can be compared to tape boxes. Obviously large archives attract a lot of research.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Um...ok? Feel better?

 

[Hardcore Games]

I have a spreadsheet of disks in my collection as I have an Orico 5-disk box which thumbs its nose v tape

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Thread just feels like you saw something in another thread, made your own to counter argue a point with no context.

 

[Assimilator]

Someone forgot to take their meds today.

 

[Konomi]

Tape is better for entertaining your server room cats with.

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

SAS, U.2, U.3 , and EDSFF are more what I would expect rather than Sata in a high-density server (at least for caching and main data mover purposes).....and they can all smoke LTO tape.

 

[Hardcore Games]

U.3 fizzled but U.2 has endured in the data center

SAS and U.2 are merged so servers can use SATA, SAS and PCIe devices as desired or available

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

U.3 fizzled but U.2 has endured in the data center

SAS and U.2 are merged so servers can use SATA, SAS and PCIe devices as desired or available

I realize that.....just saying that tape vs hard disk isn't really an "apples to apples" comparison in the modern server/datacenter/NAS back-up discussion.

Even with consumer gear, I wouldn't be using any big/deep storage that didn't have SSD for caching purposes.

 

[Visible Noise]

I have a spreadsheet of disks in my collection as I have an Orico 5-disk box which thumbs its nose v tape

Bwaahaahahaha

You think that makes you cool? Post back when you have a fully populated VNX array.

 

[KrazyT]

I don't understand any word writed here !

 

[Harlow]

Tape robots are expensive so only a few operations use them.

I don't need a tape robot. When my LTO drive ejects a tape cartridge, I plug another one in. It's not rocket science.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Forgive me for asking, what is the point of this thread? How much data are we talking? How long do you plan to archive it? Unless we're talking about a huge volume of data to be stored very long term, tape is not what you want.

Drunkposting is becoming way too common here on the forum, alcoholism is on the rise I see

 

[Hardcore Games]

I installed two more Seagate 4TB hard disks to my Orico box so now I have 4x4+12TB of storage in aggregate. Adds up to 28TB.

 

[Frick]

If you think harddrives are better than tape drives you are not the target demographic for tape drives.

 

[Hardcore Games]

Hard disks at 28TB are widely available and before long 30TB and 32TB disks will surface as larger capacity disks a bought by corporations

Aside from iTunes most of my hard disks are flooded with games galore

 

[R-T-B]

Yeah, longevity is what the tapes promise (talking decades). HDDs get pretty questionable in the 20 year timeframe even if powered off the whole time. For some groups, this matters.

 

[eidairaman1]

Yeah, longevity is what the tapes promise (talking decades). HDDs get pretty questionable in the 20 year timeframe even if powered off the whole time. For some groups, this matters.

Pelican cases come to mind to keep them dry and cool.

Keeping Hardcopies helps too

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

Tapes are pretty much the go to solution for long term archive.

I can't imagine anyone but me wanting my stuff. If i've been dead for 10 years, and something in my library of music, games, movies, tv, software, and files gets lost because they didn't move it to something else, i guess it is just gone. Dust in the wind....

I certainly won't care, and I would like to think i will leave a more lasting impression on the hearts of my loved ones than "he had a bunch of files."

As for me, i keep multiple copies in multiple places, and cycle disks every few years. I've lost data in fires and floods before. It sucked, but I rebuilt. It wasn't the end of the world.