3 ms·

Price per byte maybe, but in value you are sacrificing a lot. I prefer continuous backups and versioned storage.

• viraptor 7y ago
  You're not sacrificing anything. Or specifically having a long term, offline tape storage does not prevent you from having short term, online, versioned file/block storage. Different use cases.
  • techntoke 7y ago
    Well, my online versioned storage via Google is unlimited for $12/mo which syncs my files locally and then I have another backup provider that does the same thing via CrashPlan Small Business which is also unlimited for $10/mo. So that is $22/mo for unlimited continuous backup and versioning. I don''t see how tapes would offer much value, and storage location of those tapes especially for a home use case is likely going to be a single point of failure.
    • viraptor 7y ago
      Ok, but how fast can you restore if something fails? And how fast can you add 200gb of new data to that service? It's not for home use, but they're are valid use cases.
      • techntoke 7y ago
        As fast as a local CrashPlan backup can restore based on the storage medium.