[Info-vax] USB or SCSI TAPE

[Robert Deininger]

On Friday, September 5, 2014 6:52:26 AM UTC-4, David Turner wrote:
> I talked with my HP re and he suggested SCSi for the HP rx2800i2 backup 
> with VMS 8.4. USB is just if not faster is it not in this iteration on 
> the rx2800i2
> 
> Comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Going to connect numerous tape drives here for DR customer, so would 
> love to know what's best. USBs sure are cheaper
> 
> David
> 
> Island Computers

The QuickSpecs for that system says the USB ports are USB 2.0 only.  Not USB 3.0.  I can't imagine
much throughput with USB 2.0 tape.  Especially with "numerous tape drives".

I would look at the P411 SAS controller with LTO Ultrium tape drives, if you care about throughput.
I have no idea about VMS tape drive support with this option. The controller looks like it costs
$350 or less on the street.

Traditional parallel SCSI seems like a bad investment at this point in time.