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Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab... by monocasa on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:08PM (#25564384)
That $300 drive is an LTO-2 drive. It's so old that it's parallel SCSI.

I'd be surprised if you could even get tapes for it that aren't sketch grey market stuff that you wouldn't want to use for backups anyway.

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Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab... by segfaultbuserr on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:31PM (#25564605)
One day I found a really cheap LTO-4 drive that costed $150. Interesting, but I found it was not practical despite the price and decided against it. First, an 800 GB LTO-4 tape is no longer high density by today's standard, it couldn't even hold a 1 TB HDD image, also, I still had to pay for the necessary SAS peripherals to get it working, finally, the mechanical assembly inside a 10-year-old tape drive was not something that inspires confidence for data backup... Last time I've looked up, the cheapest decommissioned LTO-5 drive still costs $1000.
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