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Ever since watching the robo-tape floor at a company where I did an internship, I have been fascinated by high density tapes. I probably won't do this but I lik
by pushedx 3y ago
Ever since watching the robo-tape floor at a company where I did an internship, I have been fascinated by high density tapes. I probably won't do this but I like the suggestion.
- tombert 3y agoI think it's definitely worth considering. I was using Google's cold storage backup for my blu-rays for awhile, which was great until I needed to do a total restore from backup and it ended up costing me almost $800! Be careful with cloud computing if its your wallet on the line. It was a bit of an upfront investment to buy all the gear, but I can restore from backup as often as I want for free, and my total cost for gear was less than $800 so it was fairly easy to justify. I would really like to get one an LTO-9 drive, at some point, but they are way too expensive for me to be able to justify right now, even used. The tapes themselves can be had fairly reasonably but the drives (particularly the external ones) cost like $4000+, even used. In fact that's true of basically any LTO standard after 6. Once the thunderbolt drives get down to less than a grand I'll probably pick one up, but I suspect they're expensive because they're not really marketed to "consumers", but instead to entities where "cost is not an object".