> Does make one wonder why not disk robots? The disks are the same size, support random access, and can be hot swapped.
Because a tape is relatively cheap, the drive is not. With a hard drive robot you lose the (small) cost of a SATA/SAS controller per drive, but you add the cost of the robot. If you're going to get disks you might as well just hook them up.
Because a tape is relatively cheap, the drive is not. With a hard drive robot you lose the (small) cost of a SATA/SAS controller per drive, but you add the cost of the robot. If you're going to get disks you might as well just hook them up.