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LTO is used in the film industry for long term archival. I own a LTO8 drive. Sourced from Maxx Digital in Orange County, CA. Talk to Matt Stone and he'll spec o
by mmaunder 7y ago
LTO is used in the film industry for long term archival. I own a LTO8 drive. Sourced from Maxx Digital in Orange County, CA. Talk to Matt Stone and he'll spec one for you. Tell him Mark Maunder sent you. :-)
The drives are bloody expensive. Mine was around $5k.
LTO8 tapes are still hard to come by even though the patent dispute is settled. This should change soon.
The software to archive to tape is clunky and frustrating but it works. I use something free that integrates with Finder on Mac. I'm away from my office so dont remember what it's called.
The main benefit is that the tapes last for half a century and are very cheap per TB once you have made the initial investment in the drive. Very good for long term archival of films and source footage which is what I use it for.
- Keyframe 7y agoExactly what we’ve used it (when I was day-to-day in that business as well). Daily shot material stored in three copies and sent to three different physical locations and one additional copy for on-site archiving + online on hard drives. When you do a lot of those, drive price isn’t all that expensive. My major gripe with it is that you couldn’t hook it up to a USB3. Rare ones had thunderbolt, but most were that bloody external SAS thing. Not really all that great when you don’t have those controllers around. Beats the purpose of external drives.
- mmaunder 7y agoI use TB3 and I'm quite happy with this. Also has a drive bay that'll fit 12TB drives I have. https://magstor.com/collections/magstor-thunderbolt-3-tape-drives/products/magstor-lto8-12tb-thunderbolt-3-tape-drive?variant=8913615093796 https://magstor.com/collections/magstor-thunderbolt-3-tape-d...