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Also because I was curious -- looks like LTO-8 is about $12.75 on newegg. Which is still keeping below disk - but only just (and ignores the cost of drives)
by whatusername 7y ago
Also because I was curious -- looks like LTO-8 is about $12.75 on newegg. Which is still keeping below disk - but only just (and ignores the cost of drives)
- Dylan16807 7y agoIt's a pain to format LTO-7 for higher capacity in LTO-8 drives, but once you do it's only $5-$5.50 a TB
- nullc 7y agoYour comment inspired me to do some math: I have an old 24 tape robot I haven't used in a while. Priced out a used LTO8 drive and 24 LTO7 tapes, and assuming that they're formatted M8 to 9TB, it still costs out to $0.02/GB-- so only just breaking even with the 12TB USB3 external drives. You need a lot of tapes before LTO starts comparing favorably to current drive prices even using LTO7 tapes. :( like 1PB before it's really attractive.