I've noticed that most tape drives go for outrageous prices. Like most are over $400.
This is outrageous some go up to $1000 easily depending on capacity. It seems to me that is would almost be cheaper to buy a bunch of cheap ide hard drives and make them hot swapable. Wouldn't this even be more realiabe than most tapes? I don't understand why tape drives cost so much, I guess it is the reliability you are paying for (even though it's still a tape). I mean not only are the drives expensive on some of these tape drives.... but the tapes are also outrageous. If i were setting up a new server i would seriously look into just backing up to hard drives. If anyone has any thoughts on this plz tell me.