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Tape storage? https://www.ibm.com/storage/tape https://www.ibm.com/storage/tape

• l33tbro 5y ago
  Tape is still what many use to archive project files and the daily rushes for feature films. Certainly more robust than the multiple drives that get used in post.
  • _tom_ 5y ago
    Tape suffers from hardware progress. It gets harder and harder to find hardware to read a given tape format. The market for tape is much smaller than consumer markets (in units sold) You'll probably be able to read CDs in fifty years, just because there are so many of them. If you have a fifty year old tape, even in perfect condition, you probably won't be able find hardware to read it.
    • protomyth 5y ago
      LTO is pretty simple in read two generations back. Migration is pretty straight forward. If you have a fifty year old tape, even in perfect condition, you probably won't be able find hardware to read it. As I found out when migrating a pre-LTO AS/400 tape, there are rental places known to IBM partners that rent the drives that can hook to modern equipment.
      • _tom_ 5y ago
        If you know where I can get a qic tape drive, I'd really like to know !
        • protomyth 5y ago
          What do you need to hook it up to?