Backup Solution - Recommendations
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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?
