• @ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    96 months ago

    Wish smaller scale tape storage was more viable for home use (homelab scale). Would love to have tapes instead of spinning drives for something like a home media server.

    Last time I looked into it I didn’t even know where to start. Is it more feasible now? I’d imagine power consumption would also be better than keeping disks spinning all the time.

      • Jolteon
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        156 months ago

        Yes, but it’s great for your emergency backup copy of media.

      • @ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        16 months ago

        My thought process is that in the case of media I’m not accessing the same files over and over, at least not for most of the files. For a media archive it would make sense, to me at least. I’m not familiar with modern tape storage, I’m sure there’s many good reasons why this isn’t done (yet?).

        Would be good for self hosted offsite backups too I’d imagine.

    • @mint_tamas@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      The tape drives I found were really expensive. But as others mentioned, it’s not really suitable for media anyway. Only cold storage backup.