[nylug-talk] Recommendations for encrypted tape drive(s)?

[Sunny Dubey]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:28:05 pm Chris Knadle wrote:
>    So for all of these reasons I would personally tend to have more faith
> in a software encryption solution rather than a hardware one, even with the
> obvious downsides.  I'm not making a recommendation of one over the other
> overall, though.  I don't have a lot of experience with tape drives, and no
> personal experience with tape drives that do internal encryption.

I have very similar sentiments.  I have limited experience with tapes as well, 
but I think of additional tape functionality as a lot like RAID:  Much of 
what used to be done in hardware, is now done with software with little 
differences.

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Sunny Dubey

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