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I have no personal experience, but think an LTO tape would last longer than a HDD for long term storage. LTO tapes are rated to 30 years of storage and I doubt
by JaggedJax 10y ago
I have no personal experience, but think an LTO tape would last longer than a HDD for long term storage. LTO tapes are rated to 30 years of storage and I doubt anyone would be using an HDD to store data that long.
- londons_explore 10y agoWith drives, you are typically checking every few hours that data is readable. If it becomes unavailable, you create a new replica right away. With tapes, even though they might last longer, you typically wouldn't scan and check the data as regularly. That means, if it does go unavailable, there is a larger window of time for other replicas to fail in before re-replication completes.