I haven't dealt directly with LTO archiving but we have Bru and a Tanberg LTO-4 unit that the maintenance engineer backs things up to. I've never seen it used to restore even when we had unity issues so I have a feeling that would be a nightmare. Not because of the speed but because of the randomness of the backups as they relate to content. I'm sure the engineer uses his own system for archiving the various volumes but without a knowledge of what's on a particular volume I'm doubtful it would be very easy to locate the exact LTO Tape, or is it drive, for a particular piece of data.
I was under the impression the LTO-5 started to allow file based access to archives. I seem to recall asking about this before and it did access files but it was slow and might have been handicapped in other ways depending on how the drive was being accessed. I think of file based access as Random Access but perhaps I'm not grasping the details of what true Random Access is compared to what LTO 5 and 6 offer in the way of file level access. Could someone shed some light on the difference.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@...> wrote:
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> Random Access is the big advantage over LTO.
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> Dom Q. Silverio
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> > Yeah, this product at the price point they have it is a complete baffler.
> > $8000 for a Blu-ray burner, no matter how fast it is, seems ridiculous.
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> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Dom Q. Silverio <domqsilverio@...>wrote:
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> >> $280 for 1.5TB disc.
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> >> LTO-5 is about $30 - $40 for 1.5TB. Drives start around $2K.
> >> LTO-6 is about $60 - $80 for 2.5TB. Drives start around $3K
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> >> Dom Q. Silverio
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> >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:05 AM, <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> >>> Looks like they finally have a product. Now I have to compare pricing to
> >>> LTO.
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> >>> http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-ODSD77U/
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