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Yes, that was my other concern, especially looking at long term storage - would I still find drivers for it (or the SCSI controllers) 10 years down the line. An
by puzzlingcaptcha 5y ago
Yes, that was my other concern, especially looking at long term storage - would I still find drivers for it (or the SCSI controllers) 10 years down the line. And even Linux has been purging unused/unmaintained drivers lately. As much as I liked the prospect of a little retro-computing side-project I ended up just burning a dozen BD-XL discs instead. Wouldn't really work for large volumes of data but this was just a personal backup.
- smackeyacky 5y agoI think the HP drives found in ML-350 servers and similar will likely be useable for a long time, but you seem to need the whole server, controller card combo. I have one of these servers but the tape drive is unused since some trial software i had expired. Not sure why it still costs thousands of dollars for tape backup software on a 10+ year old server.