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providing the ability to insert/remove tapes in a bulk basis (say for weekly offsite storage or tape
rotation) versus managing individual tapes that can be more easily lost. Costs of small libraries are
typically not significantly higher than the cost of two drives, plus the costs of losing that first
organizationally critical backup, and provide a much better level of protection than the single tape drive.
Advanced Storage Unit Media types
For environments that have a potential for faster growth, it is desirable to implement more dynamic
types of storage connectivity: iSCSI, CIFS/NFS, or Fibre Channel–based storage. A shared storage
environment, such as a low-cost drive array that acts as an ...