Tape vs disk cost

[Richard Pieri]

On Mar 29, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> Everytime I re-examine this, roughly speaking, the breakeven point is approx
> 10 disks or tapes.  More than that, tapes are cheaper.  Less than that,
> disks are cheaper.

If all that you are looking at is up-front monetary cost for media then this is very true.  It gets complicated when you're dealing with large scale (multi-terrabyte) databases.

--Rich P.