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That's a lot of storage! Can't really think of a use for this (200tb plus) personally but it is appealing.

by Synaesthesia 5y ago

throw0101a 5y ago
Tape makes more sense the larger you go, as it help amortize the fixed/upfront costs. The incremental costs of buying more tapes (that are re-usable) isn't that much at scale. It's often relatively cheap insurance against data loss for many organizations. A lot of 'enterprise' backup software is also now coming with hooks into cloud storage (e.g., S3 APIs), but then you have to worry about bandwidth and the time it takes to get the bits offsite at "x" bits/second. Of course you also have to worry about retrieving the data in case of disaster per the Recovery Time Objective: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_recovery#Recovery_Time_Objective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_recovery#Recovery_Tim... Also: a backup has not happened until you try and succeed your recovery process.
- metabagel 5y ago
  > but then you have to worry about bandwidth and the time it takes to get the bits offsite at "x" bits/second. Reminds me of the saying that the fastest throughput is achieved by a 747 full of hard drives. > Also: a backup has not happened until you try and succeed your recovery process. A thousand times this.
simcop2387 5y ago
For me it's a lot about just being a data hoarder and never having to delete something because i'm low on storage. About half of my system though is taken up by system backups and virtual machines. I should do a cleanup of those, but the freedom of just being able to spin up something new or put a new backup on there without ever going, "do i have enough space for this?" is rather nice.
- organsnyder 5y ago
  I also rarely/never delete anything, but my ~2tb NAS still has plenty of room. I guess it makes a difference that the only media I store is my own photos and videos.

4 ms·

That's a lot of storage! Can't really think of a use for this (200tb plus) personally but it is appealing.

by Synaesthesia 5y ago

That's a lot of storage! Can't really think of a use for this (200tb plus) personally but it is appealing.

throw0101a 5y ago
Tape makes more sense the larger you go, as it help amortize the fixed/upfront costs. The incremental costs of buying more tapes (that are re-usable) isn't that much at scale. It's often relatively cheap insurance against data loss for many organizations. A lot of 'enterprise' backup software is also now coming with hooks into cloud storage (e.g., S3 APIs), but then you have to worry about bandwidth and the time it takes to get the bits offsite at "x" bits/second. Of course you also have to worry about retrieving the data in case of disaster per the Recovery Time Objective: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_recovery#Recovery_Time_Objective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_recovery#Recovery_Tim... Also: a backup has not happened until you try and succeed your recovery process.
- metabagel 5y ago
  > but then you have to worry about bandwidth and the time it takes to get the bits offsite at "x" bits/second. Reminds me of the saying that the fastest throughput is achieved by a 747 full of hard drives. > Also: a backup has not happened until you try and succeed your recovery process. A thousand times this.
simcop2387 5y ago
For me it's a lot about just being a data hoarder and never having to delete something because i'm low on storage. About half of my system though is taken up by system backups and virtual machines. I should do a cleanup of those, but the freedom of just being able to spin up something new or put a new backup on there without ever going, "do i have enough space for this?" is rather nice.
- organsnyder 5y ago
  I also rarely/never delete anything, but my ~2tb NAS still has plenty of room. I guess it makes a difference that the only media I store is my own photos and videos.