Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago"permanent modern digital records"hexbear.netimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1167arrow-down1image"permanent modern digital records"hexbear.netPosadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDes [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65·2 months agohold on i thought old fashion tape drives were in fact still very reliable and have insanely high capacity for data you don’t need to access much or quickly?
minus-squareBeaver [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 months agoAbsolutely, they have proven long-term reliability, and great data density.
minus-squarefox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·edit-22 months agoMagnetic tape drives have the lowest per-terabyte cost of any digital storage medium and will typically function for 15-30 years
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoWell yeah but why would you store something in a facility you control on hardware you own when you could host it in the cloud?
hold on i thought old fashion tape drives were in fact still very reliable and have insanely high capacity for data you don’t need to access much or quickly?
Absolutely, they have proven long-term reliability, and great data density.
You would be correct
Magnetic tape drives have the lowest per-terabyte cost of any digital storage medium and will typically function for 15-30 years
Well yeah but why would you store something in a facility you control on hardware you own when you could host it in the cloud?