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> In a cold and dry room you can have your tapes sit for 3 decades and they'll work. If you can find a working drive, and drivers, for a 30 year old tape. Look
by skookumchuck 8y ago
> In a cold and dry room you can have your tapes sit for 3 decades and they'll work.
If you can find a working drive, and drivers, for a 30 year old tape. Look at all the problems NASA has with their old tapes. The tapes actually are fine, it's just a major effort to custom build a machine to read them.
- zaarn 8y agoOh don't worry, you'll get a drive and drivers, these things are build for it and as long as not all vendors for the standard are bankcrupt, you'll get something to read the drive. You can still obtain LTO-1 compatible drives nearly 2 decades after the standard was released.