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I’d love consumerish tape storage for cold backups. I don’t really need random IO for archival stuff.
Yeah, same, but every time I look at second hand stuff its crazy expensive, or completely obsolete.
And if something dies, good luck on getting replacements lol.
I'd love tape but >5k for a drive is a bit outside my budget.
Yeah, the longevity for tape backups feels entirely theoretical when the tape drives themselves are out of production, so you could end up with a perfect tape, and nothing can read it...
I mean...The parts are probably easy enough to remanufacture.
IF you have the budget of an AWS or Azure.
For us? Yep. Sadly.