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Wtb: tape media
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:02 pm
by Logicdropper
My boss damaged his imation mangnus 1.2 tape. Anyone have an old tape they wanna part with?
Re: Wtb: tape media
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:07 pm
by Spyhop
I have to ask. Why is he still using tapes?
Re: Wtb: tape media
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:02 pm
by SCETR
There are some tape backup's out now with huge capacity, from what I have seen. I can't imagine how slow they would be though! Backing up all that data would take forever.
Re: Wtb: tape media
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:57 pm
by JohnyRico
tape is a very good medium for reuse and reliability.
Tapes can be very fast sceter, faster than say optical media.
And larger.
External hard drives are prone to failure when moving them around offsite and such.
Might be less expensive, and easier to find, a new medium type, with higher capacity than 1.2 GB.
Multiple External USB drives would be more cost effective I bet.