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Until they break. Then you can't get a new one. Source: have done this at scale, have spent time scouring the second-hand market to cobble together early-gener
by rodgerd 7y ago
Until they break. Then you can't get a new one.
Source: have done this at scale, have spent time scouring the second-hand market to cobble together early-generation LTO drives.
- liability 7y agoAlways buy two I guess. That messes with the affordability calculus though.
- protomyth 7y agoYou should have at least two to have critical redundancy. Not to mention making backup testing easier.
- Dylan16807 7y agoOkay, so by 'a little while' you mean a pretty significant amount of time. If you plan up front to migrate to new tapes every two generations (shrinking your collection 4x in the process!) then you'll never need a particularly old machine.