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The tape story is really killing me. I even bought one old tandberg for 200 euros, used and run it on an ancient hardware just for backups. I just dont get it
by stiray 7y ago
The tape story is really killing me. I even bought one old tandberg for 200 euros, used and run it on an ancient hardware just for backups. I just dont get it that in all those years not a one single vendor decided to make less expensive tape devices for the consumer market.
- EvanAnderson 7y agoThere used to be less expensive consumer-oriented tape drives (floppy-based QIC, various parallel port drives, VXA, an DDS/DAT). That segment of the market has been subsumed by backup services, USB-based solid state or hard disk-based storage, and writable optical media.
- acuozzo 7y ago> not one single vendor decided to make less expensive tape devices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUS0Zv2APjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUS0Zv2APjU