Bon Soir Henri,
Many thanks for your most informative post. I'm beginning to think I should
stick with LTO, but it really is a pain. I'll see what I can find out about
external LTO drives and see if they're any easier to install than the
internal variety. I only say this because I have a rack full of unused LTO
tapes already.
Many thanks,
Jayney
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:08:17 +0100, Henri Chamoux
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>Hi Jayney, greetings from France !
>
>An intereting fact about RDX I believe : please check on the video I
>just found there : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65bpj1p26fU
>and please do not miss the instructive comments among which one
>understands that RDX is nothing else than a common 2.5'' harddrive
>(brand is seagate) into a plastic box with a bit of rubber suspension.
>Do not be cheated ! I believe a bunch of external drives (USB or
>E-SATA) will do the same job and save your money.
>
>Having responsibilies in acquiring and preserving audio data, I usually
>make use of CF cards, making saves on 3.5'' harddrives exclusively,
>should they be raid arrays or non-raid, but always with redundant copies
>stored in different places.
>If LTO seems to be the best placed for long term preservation of huge
>archives, I believe it is not convenient for a budget or a single
>entrepreneur and that redundant hard drives may remain the most
>reasonable option.
>
>Regards,
>Henri (like Corey a happy user in the easy world of Linux)
>
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>Le 27/01/2016 08:59, subscribe arsclist Jayney Wallick Jayney Jayney
>Wallick Bard at Large www.bardatlarge.com (206) 286-6691 a écrit :
>> Thanks Corey,
>>
>> You say "continue with LTO if you have the data to warrant the cost." It
>> took me roughly 2 1/2 years to fill up one 1.5 TB LTO tape. What I don't
>> understand is that if RDX drives and LTO tapes both are lifetested to
last
>> 30 years, why is LTO better? I'm guessing an external LTO drive doesn't
plug
>> in to a USB port like an RDX drive. Also, as the computer repair folks
keep
>> reminding me, Windows 10 (that they just installed after completely
>> rebuilding my system) doesn't support LTO, or tape drives at all. Does
the
>> IT model suggest using unsupported hardware with an OS? Just curious. Of
>> course, maybe my system is no longer a good candidate for tape backup,
but
>> since it's just been rebuilt from the ground up, I need a good archival
>> backup system that works with what I've got. That's why I was considering
>> RDX. Thoughts?
>>
>> Many thanks for all your help,
>>
>> Jayney
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:15:20 -0800, Corey Bailey
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>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jayney,
>>>
>>> I would follow the IT model and continue with LTO if you have the data
>>> to warrant the cost. BTW: The "IT model" suggests two copies of your LTO
>>> tapes separated geographically with "near line" access to the files
>>> being on separate media of your choice. The occasion of the computer
>>> power supply going down and taking everything inside the case with it
>>> (been there, done that) is basically the cost of doing business.
>>>
>>> We asked for this when we taught sand how to think.
>>>
>>> Corey
>>> Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
>>>
>>> On 1/26/2016 1:30 PM, subscribe arsclist Jayney Wallick Jayney Jayney
>>> Wallick Bard at Large www.bardatlarge.com (206) 286-6691 wrote:
>>>> Hi There,
>>>>
>>>> I record live music, and have been doing so since 1974. Several years
ago I
>>>> managed to transfer what I wanted to save to DDS tape, until I started
>>>> recording to Compact Flash cards in 2012. Since then I've been backing
>>>> everything up to LTO until late last month/year when my computer's
power
>>>> supply failed, frying the LTO drive in the process. I have only filled
up
>>>> one LTO tape in that time, and had started a second late in 2014. The
>>>> partial tape had to be sacrificed to run the diagnostics used to
determine
>>>> that the LTO drive was damaged.
>>>>
>>>> I know of a service that can transfer LTO tapes to other media. My
research
>>>> seems to indicate that both RDX drives and LTO tapes are life-tested to
last
>>>> 30 years. Given that the RDX drive can be an external USB drive, and
the LTO
>>>> drive has to have a computer-specific SAS or some other such card to
support
>>>> it, and requires separate installation, which of these media do you
think is
>>>> more archival? Just to be clear, I record on two compact flash cards,
so
>>>> already have the audio files in two places when I leave the concert,
and
>>>> then go home and back them up to have a third place. Do you think
there's an
>>>> advantage, archivally speaking, between LTO and RDX, or is it six of
one,
>>>> and half a dozen of the other? I'd like to make a purchase decision by
1-29-
>>>> 16 if at all possible, so if someone could please reply soon I'd
greatly
>>>> appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jayney
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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