Less than a thousand when I considered it in the past couple years, but not worth it for me due to overrated data durability. Found we need home vinyl record etching machines if we want something as good at shelf stability as these tapes are sometimes proclaimed to be.
Yeah I just looked at prices for LTO drives and it made me wish optical was still a thing. $3500 for an LTO8 drive alone is more than the value of my entire homelab.
Sweet. Gimme a brand spanking new drive that uses a sizeable cassette and bring back the experience of VHS.
This got me thinking that maybe I should grab an LTO drive to use for homelab backups.
what is the ballpark price to get started on this kind of setup?
Less than a thousand when I considered it in the past couple years, but not worth it for me due to overrated data durability. Found we need home vinyl record etching machines if we want something as good at shelf stability as these tapes are sometimes proclaimed to be.
Not bad for pure storage density though
Yeah I just looked at prices for LTO drives and it made me wish optical was still a thing. $3500 for an LTO8 drive alone is more than the value of my entire homelab.
That’s $3500 for drives with style.
I’ll stick to my refurbished 12TB HDDs though.