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Where to get used tape drives? (fedia.io)
submitted 2 months ago by BlueKey@fedia.io to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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I'm entertaining the thought to write my backups onto tape storage. So my questiont to this community is: does someone know where (if any) to get cheap and simple (my requirements are "just writes & reads the data and is usable with a Linux machine") used tape drives?

Thanks for any hints.

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[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago

Ask geophysicists or people dealing with geophysical data. Storing on tape is pretty much industry standard, and drives are upgraded now and then for better speed and data density.

Source: We sold off a bunch of TS1150 a couple of years ago after upgrading.

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