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what if the tape reader break? that's expensive. I'd rather have a hard drive raid backup.
Nice illustration!
Can you play video files (avi,mkv, mp4) in real time from a DAT Tape drive? Or would you have to copy them over to another source first? I'm considering DAT for archiving home movies, etc.
LTO-7 holds 15TB at 700Mbs speeds you can pull 1048GB from a tape in one hour.
thats pretty cool but crystal hard-drive will be the future of backup. it'll probably still be around millions of years after were all dead or in space.
Gotta admit, that was fucking cringeworthy.
Ehh... if that guy had a Mac, he could buy a hard drive enclosure that has a Firewire port. That would be much faster than USB; unless, perhaps, he's using 3.0, but I doubt he is.
if you were to get a tape, how do you restore only particular files from tape to your new hard drive, if reading random data on tape takes minutes (it will need thousands of rewindings for all those little files), and restoring everything linearly is not an option since the new hard drive will run out of space before the tape?
Cool comparison
Don't buy reader, just find someone who has one, and maybe borrow, or rent it.
very sophisticated advertistment from hp! really nice one : )
$50 Tape + $2500 Reader, HDD is better if you don't plays and crash it everywhere
The tape drive is for very large businesses. Hard disc are MUCH better for personal and small business use. Personal use... and 16gig SD cards and flash drives become viable..
British actors are the shit. Great work.
yes its all cool, til you see the prices of these tape drives. They are like 10 times as much as a 4tb hard drive. I would much rather have a 10 4tb drives than one tape drive. I still have my old 1995 hard drive, and still works fine after almost 20 years.
pretty good acting !
i hate tape backups. slow, proprietary, very expensive.
the future of backups lies in arrays and distributed storage.
just look at the prices for tape drives (or even tape robots).
i can buy a 3 tb harddisk for as much as 140€ and get enough of those to outlast any tape system, plus i'm much more flexible (lol @ encryption).
and oh yeah! i worked for a major player in 'backup and recovery' software. may be its just that software, but most of the times, backing up to tapes are real pain in...
in cntd with my prvs comment, when you take backups to storage devices, you are not like taking a backup now and next three years later. at the most, every organization takes backup(full) every month least. so you always have enough of backups to rely upon. tapes are/may be the choice when you are storing that info for years w/o another subsequent backup. yes, i agree on the power consumption, and storage capacity. but somehow i prefer hdd to tape. in short tapes are good for redundant backup.
well very good points there. kinda sold out 'tape' to me too. however, things i'd like to mention and may be someone can kinda put a perspective on my thoughts here. the backups taken to a tape device, are only for storage. i mean if you want to restore your o/s, you gotta have them restored(copy them, i mean) to a hdd and then use that disk to restore from. plus, if you do a file-level backup to a tape (for all those reasons mentioned here), you cant do an index to move to that particular file