I am using VXA-320 technology and I love it. Each X6 (this is what I
use) tape holds 40GB. Tape is only $12. They have also X10 and X23
tapes for 80 and 160GB uncompressed. Really fast speed with about
800MB/minute over GB network. The only minus is LVD SCSI interface. I
wish there is firewire.
Take a look et their website - how they test their tapes.
Derek Lambert
Director of Prepress Services,
Color and Information Technologies
Litho-Art Inc.
175 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
Tel. 212-242-7650 x.116
Gary Smith wrote:
I am writing this to discover what methods people are using for
archiving data. Several of my customers (and myself) have piles of
data
usually over 100 GB that needs to be archived to make room for the
next pile
of data.
I have been using DVD and iView MediaPro with much success. However,
burning so many DVD discs is quite the chore. The more effort
archiving is,
the less likely it is to be done in the first place.
Hard drives at first seem like a good way to go, but they are rather
fragile and do fail too often regardless of abuse. I don't trust
them for
long term archiving.
