Hi-cap storage question

Sat Jun 19 07:37:19 PDT 2004

I know of one at the Internet Archive that is just collecting dust if 
you want a used one.

Tim

Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> One thought in tape drives.. I've seen a few 768-tape storagetek
> libraries with something like 7 drive quantum (they might be upgradeable
> to 11 libraries) go on ebay, for about $45k.. Add another $25k worth of
> superdlt drives to get it to 7 SDLT 200/400s, and about $10k worth of
> tape, could get you about 15 petabytes of storage, at about 360GB/hour
> (or is that per minute? I'm tired).
> uncompressed data. All for the low, low price of about $80k.