[mythtv-users] MythTV backup

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> ...
>> I use DLT tape but only because I got the drives and tapes free, if
>> you had to pay current prices they are way too expensive for consumer
>> use. Even so 500GB would take up a LOT of tapes.
>
> A DLT-S4 tape holds 800GB uncompressed.
>
> Writes 50MB/sec.
>
> But the drive is not cheap...

Hmmm... May look into that. I'm using old DLT-4 stuff so at 40GB per  
tape a 500GB drive would take a lot of tapes to back up.

That's IDE hard drive write speed (well, almost).

Thanks for the tip.

beww