Needless to say, Fujifilm is citing generative AI and other AI-related services as major drivers behind the growing demand for magnetic tape

LTO-10 tapes were released earlier this year, providing a native capacity of 40 terabytes.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      It has it’s uses.
      But as any backup solution: Not a singular.
      A proper backup concept has at least 3 copies on at least 2 different medias (types or amount matters only slightly) and one is not at the location of the original.

      Veeam (a backup vendor) has expanded on it with 3-2-1-1-0.
      1 = 1 Backup target is an immutable technology
      0 = 0 errors on the backup (which expects a validation)

      And I honestly like the idea.

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        yea no thx

        especially if im paying for it

        ot that im surprised companies would get lazy/cheap

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          You pay either way.
          Up front or over a span of time…
          What matters is what you need from your storage.

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              Again: It depends.

              I would use it as a storage provider on which I would put an encrypted veracrypt drive (or whatevee is the good stuff).
              Or as an off-site storage provider for my backup.

              As a single atorage site? Nah. Too expensive for my home needs.
              For a business? If you can’t afford to drop 1200€ for 3x 4TB SSDs to bring your data backups off-site? Pretty good offering.
              And the immutability is a plus as well.