Backup Solution - Recommendations
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@BRRABill said:
You could even keep using your RDX drive for that. (Though I wouldn't recommend it due to the cost difference between RDX cartridges and equivalent USB drives.)
RDX drives are designed to be plugged and unplugged regularly and are shock resistant for travel. Those are their selling points. USB drives are better if they never move anywhere and are rarely plugged and unplugged.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
You could even keep using your RDX drive for that. (Though I wouldn't recommend it due to the cost difference between RDX cartridges and equivalent USB drives.)
RDX drives are designed to be plugged and unplugged regularly and are shock resistant for travel. Those are their selling points. USB drives are better if they never move anywhere and are rarely plugged and unplugged.
I typically think if you are making, say, a monthly backup, use a USB drive. They are at lezst half the cost.
If I had a drive I was carting back and forth every week or so, I'd probably still go USB, and just do it more regularily.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Good time to consider tape. Any backup media that you have, you generally need to have multiple drives to handle it for reliability purposes.
Wait?
Did you just say tape?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Good time to consider tape. Any backup media that you have, you generally need to have multiple drives to handle it for reliability purposes.
Wait?
Did you just say tape?
Wha whaaaa?RDX is just drives mimicking tape. Why not use actual tape?
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@BRRABill said:
If I had a drive I was carting back and forth every week or so, I'd probably still go USB, and just do it more regularily.
Difference is in how you have to card it around. USB drives require a lot more care.
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@scottalanmiller said:
RDX is just drives mimicking tape. Why not use actual tape?
Because drives are better/faster/cheaper?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Difference is in how you have to card it around. USB drives require a lot more care.
Agreed.
But if you are a little careful, you might be OK.
Or get a USB drive that can take a little more beating than normal.
Just saying there is a huge premium for RDX.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
RDX is just drives mimicking tape. Why not use actual tape?
Because drives are better/faster/cheaper?
Than tape? Where have you found these magic drives? What RDX drive is faster or cheaper than LTO?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Difference is in how you have to card it around. USB drives require a lot more care.
Agreed.
But if you are a little careful, you might be OK.
Or get a USB drive that can take a little more beating than normal.
Just saying there is a huge premium for RDX.
Where do you find this USB drive?
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LTO is $8/TB. That would mean a 4TB drive with far better than RDX speed or reliability would need to be $32 for normal sizes and $64 for the biggest on the market. Tape looks to be like 1/10th the cost of drives.
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LTO price reference. And this is from over six months ago. It keeps going down and new, larger formats are due out soon.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Where do you find this USB drive?
I mean that the smaller passport-type drives are easier to carry around than the larger enclosure type drives.
None of them can take real beating, per se.
But if I buy it, unbox it, do the backup, rebox it, and take it somewhere to store, I think that is a much better option, cost-wise.
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@scottalanmiller said:
LTO is $8/TB. That would mean a 4TB drive with far better than RDX speed or reliability would need to be $32 for normal sizes and $64 for the biggest on the market. Tape looks to be like 1/10th the cost of drives.
How much does the actual drive cost?
