I was talking to an old co-worker and he was telling me that the LTO3 drive in his MSL2024 died and he was looking into getting a new LTO5 drive, but by the time we calculated the cots of the drive and new tapes he's looking at spending almost $10k!!
Does anyone use a standard hard drive or external SAN to back up data on to? Also can you use BE or ArcServe with a big say 4tb external drive instead of a tape drive? He figured he can get 5 big 4tb drives and use that as nightly backup solution.