http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/74/sun-zfs-and-some-big-hardware/ Thoughts on Software Development and Engineering Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:35:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/74/sun-zfs-and-some-big-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-9 IONCANNON » Tape drives are obsolete Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:27:53 +0000 http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/74/sun-zfs-and-some-big-hardware/#comment-9 [...] Take google who build thier own commodity hardware. How would they ever back up so much data? Why would they even try? It would be much easier to just do what they are doing and replicate the data multiple places. Drives are becoming so huge how can you manage to keep up with your tape library solution? What if you had to back up the Sun Thumper at 24T? That would require a massive number of tapes. [...] [...] Take google who build thier own commodity hardware. How would they ever back up so much data? Why would they even try? It would be much easier to just do what they are doing and replicate the data multiple places. Drives are becoming so huge how can you manage to keep up with your tape library solution? What if you had to back up the Sun Thumper at 24T? That would require a massive number of tapes. [...]

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