Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder

Re:Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder by wkat4242 on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:07AM (#43387194)

Hm yeah but those tapes, they're not really a lot cheaper than a HDD of that capacity. And a tape library is a very expensive, huge and noisy.

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Re:Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder by roygbiv2 on Monday March 17, 2025 @04:06PM (#43392249)

And as I found out the drives are tempermental. I had a tape library and eventually both drives said they'd needed cleaning, even after cleaning. When it worked it was great, though a cheap NAS with a couple of hard drives in it replaced it and was far more reliable and cheaper.

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Re:Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder by Tepix on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:35AM (#43433158)

Here i'm seeing the cheapest HDD at a cost of 15€/TB and LTO-9 tape at 4.72€/TB. That's more than a 3x difference.

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