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While the media is is cheaper LTO8 drives are not. A single Disk writer with manual change can be around 4-5K USD. That is alot of tapes to recover the cost s
by syshum 6y ago
While the media is is cheaper LTO8 drives are not. A single Disk writer with manual change can be around 4-5K USD.
That is alot of tapes to recover the cost savings over HDD
- LorenPechtel 6y agoYup. This article made me recheck the economics of tape backup. You'll have to have a lot of data before it becomes cheaper than simply duplicating the storage. Worried about ransomware? Have a dedicated backup machine that does nothing else, it's as isolated as possible, it reads the data to be backed up and writes it to the backup drives.
- est31 6y agoIndeed, it's not economical for most people. Even rental is probably not something that most people would bother with. Most people are served enough by the one or two HDDs they own, maybe a NAS.