Re: Fiber vs SAS LTO Tape Speed

Thanks everyone for your responses.


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:15 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For small shops with one to maybe three partitions yes SAS will be cheaper
both the drive itself and clearly the card to connect it. You can
virtualize the tape DRIVE through IBM i to other guest partitions as well.

If you have one Fiber drive and one Fiber card you can certainly go
straight between them with no switch. From a flexibility standpoint though
you are *EXACTLY equal to SAS at that point and you've spent more money!


- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 8/19/2014 10:36 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

If that's the case, why would anyone ever go SAS?

Is SAS cheaper than fiber? Significantly so?
If you are talking one card to one drive, do you really need the SAN
switch?


Rob Berendt

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