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Finally nearing the time to drop some coin on hardware. One of the first things on the list is an LTO6 tape drive for an offline media archive and also for backup use. I am wondering if there is any reason to choose one maker (ie IBM vs Quantum vs HP) or model over another. About the only...

I think I posted once in the past six months ago about other LTO users and got scarce responses... if anyone can suggest forums/places to go to better discuss this i'm all ears. I don't know where else to ask or to join to ask. I'm planning on building a server dedicated to writing LTO6 tapes...

Either somebody here, or if you can point me to forums anywhere on the interwebs that I can sign up to to talk to people who use these with any regularity just to ask some questions only they would know. Specific question example - does LTFS (tape file system) store fine grained timestamp...

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks - based around the idea that one disk in a set can fail or is seen as a failure risk, and more space efficient than straight mirroring while potentially being able to tolerate more failures. (especially the 'wrong two' mirrored drives failing) I need to...

Hello, this is my (second) post (first was responding to a help request) because someone on SmallNetBuilder suggested I come on over here because this either is more my style, or may be a necessary part of what I have to do. My name "Twice Shy" should suggest to you that i've suffered serious...