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Another consideration related to this is that tapes, being usually offline, as much more secured against accidental (or malicious!) erasure when compared to alw
by q3k 5y ago
Another consideration related to this is that tapes, being usually offline, as much more secured against accidental (or malicious!) erasure when compared to always-on hard drives.
Also related is that tapes can easily be transported around/offsite, literally thrown in the back of a truck as they are. Try doing that to hard drives and see how many start throwing bad sectors after a round-trip.
- einpoklum 5y agoHDD's can be taken offline. But beyond that - if you're using HDDs as backup, you'll probably be using an HDD drawer, e.g. something like one of these: https://www.newegg.com/global/p/pl?d=hot+swap+hard+drive+bay https://www.newegg.com/global/p/pl?d=hot+swap+hard+drive+bay ... and the actual disks will usually be stored offline. So, no accidental erasure. But I agree that tapes are probably less sensitive to transportation.