$400 to $1000?? Where the heck are you shopping.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=296525

I just bought 2 of these in January.


As for the question of tapes being good for certain things...definately having 30 days worth of backups is great. You can go back and get that one file that somebody really needs that they didn't realize they deleted 3 weeks ago.


Yes, usb hd's and stuff would work ok on file servers, but imagine trying to back up a MS Exchange private directory store that's almost 20 gigs every night, plus the 30 gigs of files from the fileserver, plus all the OS's of all the servers....it's just really not that nice to be doing with a little usb drive.