Comment on Tape drive backups
shellington@lemmings.world 1 month agoIf you have a bigger budget around $2k something like LTO7 with 6TB tapes would be fantastic for larger data sets.
Comment on Tape drive backups
shellington@lemmings.world 1 month agoIf you have a bigger budget around $2k something like LTO7 with 6TB tapes would be fantastic for larger data sets.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How much do those tapes cost if purchased in bulk? I am trying to figure out how much a petabyte storage system costs, and how much physical space this would take up, and how much electricity it would require to run. I had a lot of trouble finding this information on Google because I know so little about tape storage and don’t know what all I would need. I am probably not going to actually do anything with this but I am curious because I had this idea for a product and can’t get it out of my mind. The most important part (for the hardware portion) is having nearly a petabyte of physical, local storage. I am aware this would be quite expensive and relatively large, but the product would be intended for governments and companies not individuals.