[Feeler] /Pricecheck - IBM TotalStorage 3580 Tape Drive +Tapes

[L0rd0fCha0s]

Hi guys

I have the following sitting at home and would like to know if anybody would be interested in it?
And how much something like this would go for?

Item: IBM TotalStorage 3580 Tape Drive
Age: Unknown
Warranty: None
Packaging: Will box if shipping
Condition: Working, to my knowledge
Location: Durban, Bluff
Reason: Not in use
Shipping: We can talk
Collection: Yes
Price: Please pm offers/price suggestions
Link: IBM TotalStorage 3580 Tape Drive Model L3H for HVEC incorporates IBM LTO Ultrium 3 tape drive

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I also have about 50 new tapes, ranging from 100GB to 400GB (uncompressed), and a few used tapes.
Thanks for the help

 

[lowracer]

interface?

 

[kingchris]

From the supplied link. I believe that it is

SCSI Ultra160 LVD attachment

Perhaps the seller could confirm.

 

[L0rd0fCha0s]

Below the port on the rear its says "SCSI LVD"
So you seem to be right

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[L0rd0fCha0s]

Can anybody help here?

 

[kingchris]

Server related items don’t normally go for a good price. Servers themselves are normally good at staying on 24/7, serving files, from what used to be high speed storage or from reliable Raid storage. With SATA6 ,solid state drives and built in Raid controllers servers no longer have that advantage. If they have multi-core multiple CPUs and you wish to do fancy long winded calculations then it is great to get a server.

Tape drive units seem to be a wonderful idea in the beginning and if you are some fancy company and you have to back up the operational strategic info then great. There are a few of us on Carbonite who run server farms where we do who knows what fancy processing mostly. I will take a job and copy it out to all the servers to run independently for a few hours or days. So I don’t have much server based storage that I would want to save. Another problem with your unit is that it will only work on SCSI which again, few people here, have controllers or servers that have controllers for them. This version of SCSI is slightly old and does not match modern serial attached storage (SAS).

A tape unit would be great for someone like myself who would could attach it to one of my servers then backup my main dev box, entertainment box and maybe all the server boot disks. Then it would sit idle for a few months until I wanted to restore something or update my backups. It’s a nice to have, not something I think that people are willing to spend their CUD budget on.

I would be happy to make a PM bid for it. But I think that you would be disappointed. Remember. Something is worth what someone else is prepared to pay for it, not a percentage of what it originally cost to buy, or what some price check site tells you it worth. Or course if a buyer is desperate and needs one yesterday then you can charge an arm and the traditional leg.

 

[L0rd0fCha0s]

Wow awesome post!
Thanks for putting me in the picture

 

[L0rd0fCha0s]

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