How viable is tape storage for backing up my computer? Are there consumer grade tape drives that don't cost in the thousands?
>>54779779
why could you possibly need a tape backup?
>>54779789
I like the idea of having my data on something other than another hard disk drive that could fail just as easily as my others. I've also been considering DVD or bluray
>>54779779
There used to be, now people just buy external hard drives.
I'm in the same boat as you though, I want to back up shit long term, in the 30-40+ year range. I trust an external about as far as I can throw it for that.
>>54779826
Burned optical media relies upon volatile dyes that degrade over time. So don't expect your data to be error-free after a few years.
Tape drives are expensive as shit and not worth it for home use.
>>54780048
I have DVDRs over 10 years old that still read perfectly. Tape needs special climate controlled storage for long-term reliability. Non-shit optical media is better.
>>54780048
Used tape drives can be rather cheap, I've seen LTO-4 drives for $11 before.
>>54779826
How much data are you attempting to store?
Honestly I wouldn't go through the hassle of burning to even dual layer DVDRs anymore. Depending on your needs, I'd go with either microSD shark cards, another hard drive, or amazon cloud storage.
>>54780078
>flash for long term data storage
kek
>>54780088
>wasting your time with "long term storage" when you could just buy new hardware every decade and clone your old shit
>putting this much thought into how to store your loli collection
If you're actually concerned with backing up your data, set up two or maybe three hard drives at RAID 1 and check them every few months. The likelihood that 3 drives fail simultaneously is very low.
>>54779779
Blu Ray M discs
Good for a thousand years
>>54780225
>not using raid 7
>>54779779
Can you write your data to vhs?
>>54780344
While looking into non-standard RAID levels I found this.
It's the a very interesting raid setup, and I will be doing this in my next Linux rig.
You would have two drives with four partitions, two of the partitions in raid 0 for /root and the other two partitions in raid 1 for /home. So if one drive dies, linux dies- but your data will still live on. Hope someone found this interesting. Pic related.
>Be 8
>Digging around in computer shit.
>Oh sweet cassette tapes.
>Wtf is Tron??
>Pop it into stereo, static.
>Oh right its super old it must have gone bad.
>Record radio edit of She Drives Me Crazy
>Dad finds Tron tape in the stereo.
>>54780094
>or you could just buy something not shit and not have to replace it at all
>>54780341
This, only feasible consumer archiving format
>>54780048
>he doesn't use m disc
>>54779779
Not very viable overall, the tape drives cost a lot (even if the tapes don't) and managing them manually is not optimal at all, in particular if you use older smaller tapes.
Go with redundant hdd at home, cloud storage, or blu-ray.
