• Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Tape makes an excellent, dirt cheap, large scale backup solution. You can get a 30 TB tape for 45 bucks.

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        4 months ago

        Wish smaller scale tape storage was more viable for home use (homelab scale). Would love to have tapes instead of spinning drives for something like a home media server.

        Last time I looked into it I didn’t even know where to start. Is it more feasible now? I’d imagine power consumption would also be better than keeping disks spinning all the time.

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          3 months ago

          The tape drives I found were really expensive. But as others mentioned, it’s not really suitable for media anyway. Only cold storage backup.