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Why aren't you using tapes? Wouldn't that be more suited for back ups - larger and less failures. You probably don't have a lot of reads anyways?
by arekkas 10y ago
Why aren't you using tapes? Wouldn't that be more suited for back ups - larger and less failures. You probably don't have a lot of reads anyways?
- atYevP 10y agoYev from Backblaze here -> Tape tends to have much higher read times, and can even be more expensive than hard drives in some cases. Since we have Backblaze B2 the data needs to be highly available.