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Re:LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds by c0balt on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:17PM (#30104035)
Interesting, i didn't know about glacier.

The theory of hard drives being shut off/ powered on dynamically in a rack sounds intriguing. Sounds simple and yet difficult because of the rare usecase, i.e. no commodity hardware available. Maybe something to test out for colo backups to keep power usage down and prolong disk health.

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Re:LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds by scheme271 on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:46AM (#30111054)
I believe that commodity hardware is sort of available. Look at MAID hardware. It's aimed at enterprise customers so it's pretty expensive if you buy new but there's probably older stuff on ebay or a reseller site.
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