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Re:Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers by paulmd on Monday May 21, 2018 @10:09AM (#17118465)
> Tapes are only good for offline storage.

> If you want online storage, you'll need one drive per tape,

No, tape libraries exist, and would be considered 'nearline' storage.

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape/library

> and you would get huge lookup times

Yes. This is not a good system for random access.

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Re:Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers by progval on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:11PM (#17128109)
Indeed. But the initial investment is very expensive.
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Re:Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers by paulmd on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:56AM (#17141435)
It depends on your financial scale. A fancy tape library, sure, but if your company is in-sourcing hundreds of TBs of backups surely you are not destitute. Glacier is always cheaper.

On the other hand I paid $185 for a LTO-5 drive a year or two ago (no library, manually operated). 1.5 TB on a $20 tape is still pretty good in my book.

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