On 2020-08-12 at 06:44, mick crane wrote: > Do people use tape drives for backup ? > I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big > but see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive. > Do people use those ?
Depends on the context you're talking about. I am given to understand that people do very much still use tape drives for backup in a server-room / data-center type of context. However, while I've considered using tapes for backup in my own private environment, last time I looked the cheapest tape drive with support for tapes large enough to be reasonable for my hard-drive capacities was $3000 - and that's just the drive, not the tapes. That rivals - and may surpass - the build-from-parts cost of my entire computer, which is already nearly half storage by dollars spent. It's possible things have changed since then, but I'd be surprised if tape drives were economical enough to be practical in a non-commercial environment. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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