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Exabyte EXB-10h

I have a similiar tape library that uses the same 8mm tapes, mine hold 7 GB each natively, or about 14 GB compressed, if yours has the same tapes you'd have around 140 GB there. You should be able to eject a tape and see what it's capacity is.
 
The spec sheet mentions 140GB for ten tapes. Probably not worth the investment, considering what the tapes will probably cost.

 
140GB (compressed) or 70GB (uncompressed) is not bad. I got the unit for free, I just had to go pick it up from a lady who didn't want it anymore.

I guess I could use it for storing my MP3s, or I could sell it.

What do you guys think?
 
I wouldn't bother. To read off tape drives, you have to spin up the device, and then stream it to a computer before you can begin to read the data. Backup libraries were created to do backups, not have regular consecutive reads for data access. That's what hard drives are for. Tape drives are best for storing vast amounts of data for backup, say offsite at Recall or Iron Mountain. Your probably best getting a LTO based system, such as LTO1, LTO2, or LTO3. Or maybe DAT. LTO1 will store 100GB uncompressed, LTO2, 200 uncompressed, and LTO3 400GB uncompressed.

Though this is for free, so I'd say check to see whether it works alright, and if it does, sell it on ebay, if it doesn't, sell it on ebay as "as is", or state that it doesn't work and would be good for parts.

GL
 
Lepard said:
140GB (compressed) or 70GB (uncompressed) is not bad.
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Keep in mind, that's on ten tapes. That means ten tape switches (well, really, nine...) and transfer rates will probably be >10MB/s. That means 1400 minutes to back up a full set, or ten-ish hours. Modern LTO tapes will be more like 30-40 MB/s if not more, and no tape switches.

 
It'd be good for say weekly or monthly backups, thats what I do with my autoloader, a "critical documents" data backup once a week.
 
So how much do you guys think this would sell for?

I checked on eBay and there's no other similar items that I can potentially use for comparison.
 
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