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Being able to write your own optical media killed off tapes as consumer devices. Now that optical drives are on the way out there might be a place for tapes aga
by rusk 6y ago
Being able to write your own optical media killed off tapes as consumer devices. Now that optical drives are on the way out there might be a place for tapes again ...
- andrewflnr 6y agoWhen would they be better than flash storage, though?
- jamiek88 6y agoFor longevity I suppose. Don’t you need to power on flash storage occasionally?
- sitkack 6y agoNot just power it on, but also read it. Flash isn't really a good medium for anything other than operational data. It is a good idea to have a write behind mirror from flash to either HDD, tape or highly replicated storage.
- rusk 6y agoCan you produce flash cheaper than magnetic tape now?
- ksec 6y agoI would put Flash less Reliable than HDD. Basically storing Digital Data Securely, Safely and reliably for consumer is just a bag of hurt right now. Companies want to push you all to the Cloud. And I wasn't happy when that direction started, and being increasingly unhappy with it now given how the companies have acted.
- tomjen3 6y agoI have a ton of files I can properly delete, but which I might need back at some point, possibly decades down the line. I would love to have an affordable tape machine that I could copy the files with, then store one tape at home and one at my parents place. The tapes are affordable, we need the machines to be affordable too.