well the drives/etc we have for home use are magnitudes cheaper than commercial gear which only really has equivalence with regards to how much it stores.
recently pricing out 337gb SSD drives for our production and backup servers ends up with a price about nine times that of which it would cost per terabyte of a new iMac. When you get into have 60 to 120TB it adds up but reliability is so much more important.
Now I have never looked at tape backup for home use, what is the throughput of most of these? Is this merely a limit of the interface?
People who are really serious about storage like Google and Backblaze tend to buy those cheap commercial hard drives instead of the expensive enterprise drives.
Tape drives for home use don't make much sense sadly. The tapes are too expensive compared to hard drives. It's easier to buy one of those SATA docks if you want to have cold backups.
> The tapes are too expensive compared to hard drives.
That's not at all my experience, at least when it comes to LTO. Sure, TS and T10k are expensive, but they're the 'enterprise solutions'. Modern LTO tapes can be bought for ~$100 if you shop around. Less if you buy in bulk.
Recent generation LTO tapes (LTO-6) can be had for like $25 a pop easily, low volume, just check Amazon or wherever. The LTO-7 are more expensive but that's what you get for latest and greatest.
recently pricing out 337gb SSD drives for our production and backup servers ends up with a price about nine times that of which it would cost per terabyte of a new iMac. When you get into have 60 to 120TB it adds up but reliability is so much more important.
Now I have never looked at tape backup for home use, what is the throughput of most of these? Is this merely a limit of the interface?