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Tape, at least right now, seems to have a pretty steep entry barrier though. Tape drives cost thousands of dollars and each tape itself seems to be fairly expen
by Aerroon 5y ago
Tape, at least right now, seems to have a pretty steep entry barrier though. Tape drives cost thousands of dollars and each tape itself seems to be fairly expensive too. About $50 for an LTO-7 tape that's 6 TB. That's $8-9 per TB just for the tape. HDDs seem to be around $20-25 per TB.
Need to 300 TB of capacity?
50 tapes at $50 totals $2,500 + a few thousand dollars for the tape drive.
Or you could buy about 12x 18TB external drives for about $450 each totaling $5,400. About the same.
- selfhoster11 5y agoFor home use, you can probably get an LTO4 setup going for less than $250 (including some used tapes). LTO-5 will remain write compatible with your tapes and LTO6 will remain read compatible, so there's a forward migration path that will keep things cheaper.