tape drives?

[milkman4_hi_r]

how well do tape drives work? is it worth the price or should you just get another hdd? for the prices ive seen i would rather just get another hdd with 120gb or so for 100bucks instead of shelling out 200 or more for a drive and some tapes. anyone know of some better prices on tape backups or suggetions on weather its better to just get another hdd or not?

[homer15]

tapes give versatility that an extra harddrive can't... you can have hundreds of tapes in a large rotation, as opposed to 1 or 2 hard drives. also, when you move around with a tape, you are way less likely to damage it than a hard drive.
what are you planning on backing up? a business or just your personal files?

[HAL9000]

For personal backups in the event of a hard drive failure... a second drive is the way to go... if you're talking about a business with critical data, tapes are the way to go where you can keep a copy off site.

[glc]

Tapes also get very costly when you have a lot of data to back up.

[oddjob]

I use an external hdd (20GB, usb 2.0) to back up my comp. Very quick, and easily portable if it's needed. :)

[milkman4_hi_r]

its for home use. i noticed the post about the hdd at bestbuy so im gunna go check those out. it would be way cheaper to go that way than getting a tape drive. i always wanted one though becouse of the vercitility and amount of space on one tape. i also noticed that with a cheaper tape drive the tapes are more expensive and vise versa