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You don't really need to buy the latest and greatest unit, or buy new, and both the drive and tapes last for an unreasonably long amount of time on tech timesca
by Karunamon 4y ago
You don't really need to buy the latest and greatest unit, or buy new, and both the drive and tapes last for an unreasonably long amount of time on tech timescales. It's not just that tapes have the best dollar to gigabyte ratio, they are also the most durable.
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoI can't help but think that, between entrusting data to a freshly manufactured HDD and tapes run through an affordable used LTO drive of unknown history and wear, that the HDD is the safer bet?
- wtallis 4y agoThat's why you don't entrust your data to a storage device. You verify your backups, immediately after creation and periodically afterwards.