we too have gone with a tandberg tape library and lto4 drives for our boutique editorial/sound house, for all of the reasons mentioned. tape has a well-known longevity, and the main drawback to tape is that once you have a particular system you need to consider how you'll be able to retrieve your info (if needed) in 5 years, when your existing system is likely on its last legs. that being said, i recently i had to go back to both vxa and data dat backups on a project 10 years old.( i had kept both of those systems in storage, pulled them out, cleaned them and retrieved the data without a hitch.) watch out for Retrospect 8 on the mac, though - i found that v6 is more reliable, though much clunkier to drive.
cheers
b
On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Terence Curren wrote:
> LTO is definitely safer.
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> As for speed, You can't beat the drive for a simple fix. Have to work on one shot? attach the drive, open the project fix the one shot, if the drive isn't fast enough to play it back, then consolidate the one shot to your media drive and away you go.
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> You can't do that with LTO.
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bruce tovsky
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