<div dir="ltr">The PowerVaults can hold up to 8 tapes, and some hold more I think. The 122T I saw for $270 on Froogle was 8.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/12 Pat Regan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thehead@patshead.com">thehead@patshead.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Stephen Benjamin wrote:<br>
> A dell PowerVault 122T costs as little as $300 -- plus $25/tape or so.<br>
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> 500GB would take 2-3 tapes depending on compression levels.<br>
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> Seems more economical to me than using portable hard drives.<br>
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</div>Who is going to swap the tapes during the backup? Won't that make it<br>
very uneconomical?<br>
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