I bought an incredibly overkill tape system a few years ago and then the power supply exploded in it and I never bothered to replace it. Still, definitely worth it
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badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tape is the best medium for archiving data.
peter@feddit.uk 11 months ago
vector_zero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really want to use tape for backups, but holy expensive. Those tape drives are thousands of dollars.
ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Damn, the last time I thought about this (20 years ago) I was able to buy a tape drive for a PC for like … I wanna say $250-300?? I forget the format, it was very very common though and tapes were dirt cheap, maybe $10-12 a pop. Worked great, if you were willing to sit around and swap tapes out as needed.
vector_zero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the problem is that normal consumers wouldn’t ever buy a tape drive, so the only options still being produced are enterprise grade. The tapes are still pretty cheap, but the drives are absurd.