Does tape still have a place?
>>108020266LTO-10 stores 100TB for $300, so yes. Probably not in your house due to the cost of the drives.
>>108020266tapes deez nuts to the back a yo head
>>108020283i'd happily suck the dick off anyone who made a more reasonable consumer version
>>108020283>>108022421why isn't anyone designing a custom device to compress data faster than CPUs and attaching a tape reader/writer to them?
>>108022694The market isn't there>Normies are happy with paying for cloud storage>People who benefit from large amounts of local storage already have a NAS>This just leaves /g/entoomen as the only marketBuy a Blu-ray burner and a bunch of M-discs, it's the only reasonably priced consumer archive format
why are there 2 threads about tape today? I've never seen one here ever and today there's 2
>>108024964for SOHO use, HDDs are cheaper than blu-ray. or were...>The market isn't thereI mean, the market could be there if you marketed well.imagine you could just clone your whole system storage overnight. not just a few files, but the whole thing. basically a snapshot. from your laptop, desktop pc and maybe even your phone. who wouldn't want that?
>>108025875the home computing market is mostly gaming now, which is largely cloudshit, the noble data hoarders are a persecuted underclass
>>108025875HDDs are annyoing for archive (i.e. Write until it's full, then store away) use>imagine you could just clone your whole system storage overnight. not just a few files, but the whole thing. basically a snapshot. from your laptop, desktop pc and maybe even your phone. who wouldn't want that?This sounds appealing to you and me, but we're both /g/entoomen, for businesses who genuinely need this, tape isn't overpriced, for normies, there's no point because the cloud, and for the small group comprised of everyone else, you can setup a NAS or archive on Blu-ray
We used tape cartridges to transfer data at my old job because they had a physical switch that would put them in read-only mode. I got the sense that the tapes and the tape writers were 20+ years old and out of production because new hires would have to go around begging old timers to scrounge up a spare tape.
