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> Tapes are only good for offline storage. > If you want online storage, you'll need one drive per tape, No, tape libraries exist, and would be considered '
by paulmd 8y ago
> Tapes are only good for offline storage.
> If you want online storage, you'll need one drive per tape,
No, tape libraries exist, and would be considered 'nearline' storage.
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape/library https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape/library
> and you would get huge lookup times
Yes. This is not a good system for random access.
- progval 8y agoIndeed. But the initial investment is very expensive.
- paulmd 8y agoIt depends on your financial scale. A fancy tape library, sure, but if your company is in-sourcing hundreds of TBs of backups surely you are not destitute. Glacier is always cheaper. On the other hand I paid $185 for a LTO-5 drive a year or two ago (no library, manually operated). 1.5 TB on a $20 tape is still pretty good in my book.