[Info-vax] OT: Has Ask Slashdot reached a hilarious new low-point?

[Mazzini Alessandro]

Drive aside :

(cost for a 3TB normal hd + cheap usb3 / esata box )  -  cost for a single 
lto-5 tape
+
number of total rewrites of the disk vs limited rewrites of the tape.

If it's purely to move data around because it's quicker than using a wan, 
the hd would likely win as operating cost, imo

Anyway I remember that a lot of years ago, middle 90' at most, there was 
some program to use a dat as a device to be accessed as an hd. I should 
likely still have it somewhere...


"Michael Kraemer" <m.kraemer at gsi.de> ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:k0aqop$n0u$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de...
> In article <084nf9-t2d2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>
>> "LTFS is one of the more exciting aspects of LTO 5. Not only does it
>> deliver a very simple way for users to interact with LTO 5 based drives,
>> it also provides a platform for easier interchange of media. Now, at a
>> cost of $50 a TB, 3TBs of information can be overnighted to anywhere in
>> the world. In many cases overnight delivery of an LTO5 cartridge would be
>> faster than transferring 3TBs of data across a WAN segment. The fact that
>> the receiver only needs an LTO 5 drive attached to a computer with the
>> free LTFS driver installed, not a special application, to read that data
>> is a key advantage."
>>
>
> Looks like things come full circle.
> Two decades ago the same argument held
> for 5GB 8mm cartridges vs what was called "WAN" back then.
> Question now is: what does a LTO 5 drive cost?
> Back then a 5GB tape drive was the same price as a 1GB disk.