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Re:Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior by saiya-jin on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:28AM (#37158359)
I guess most regulations require storage of data for 5 years, at least in banking that's the common case. So you can literally throw with added step of destruction at the end of supported life.

Lifetime of say 9 guaranteed supported years is useless in such model, no added value over 5. If 10 year ones cost 2x the 5-year ones they are still worse deal for company (with added cycle of safe erase to reuse).

Also, "very low error rates" sounds pretty bad - if I need to get back some client documents 95% success rate is abysmal and unacceptable, even 99% is NOK for most use cases. Unless you mean some self-correcting ones, but then we still have 100% reliability.

Re:Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior by chongli on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:33AM (#37158397)
if I need to get back some client documents 95% success rate is abysmal and unacceptable, even 99% is NOK for most use cases

Parchives [1] solved this problem a long time ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive