Comment on Is there any tape media backup system that works through USB?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
LTO tapes are 18TB today, raw - 48TB compressed.
How much data you got?
At that size I can probably build 2 Proxmox boxes with drives and compete very well on the costs.
A single 14TB disk is about $270 today - that’s in the same realm as a tape.
But tape also requires a drive, and that gets pricey fast.
Zetta@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Where in the world are you finding a 14tb drive for that price that isn’t used.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 hours ago
I’m not - that’s a used price.
I don’t have a problem with used - all my drives are used, and they typically last 5-10 years. I have some drives from 2010 that are still running.
New drives fail too, so relying on drives being new to prevent failures is foolish. The only defense against failures is duplication (which 3-2-1 backup falls under).
Whats just as important is to use a file system that can detect and repair data errors (such as ZFS).