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I use it at home for offline backup. You can get LTO-6 pretty cheap and big chunk of my backup is just things I want to keep indefinitely. You can put tapes in
by comboy 3y ago
I use it at home for offline backup. You can get LTO-6 pretty cheap and big chunk of my backup is just things I want to keep indefinitely. You can put tapes in multiple locations easily and not worry for 20 years.
If you just want to store lots of data in a single place I think MAID still beats the tape at any scale (especially if you want automated retrieval)
- copperx 3y agoIs there an LTO-6 tape drive that is, say, less than a thousand dollars? All tape drives I've seen are between 2-4k USD.
- comboy 3y agoI bought an used one (HP Ultirum 6250), you should be able to get it under $1000, closer to $500, but I recommend getting it with the controller so that you know there are no issues. Note that these controllers are made to be mounted inside heavily ventilated rack case, so if you are putting it inside desktop PC I suggest making sure some fan blows on it. It's discouraging that it's so complicated which made me back out of the purchase a few times, but it was well worth it.
- vGPU 3y agoUsed, yes.