We got a $5,500 TAPE DRIVE!

Haha i knew when i typed in LTO you guys would be the top result

For smaller (non video) projects, I think 1X speed CDR writes are the way to go for long term archival. Similar shelf life to LTO and great for my music projects or other relatively small file size media. CDRs last longer than DVD or Bluray, especially when you write them at the slowest speed, since the grooves are bigger and have more definition with the lower speed writes. I've always wanted an LTO drive but they're so damn expensive.

I want to use an earlier gen of this for my files. Something like LTO-4. Where's somewhere reliable that I can I research what to get and how to use it?

Does anyone have an url to purchase a tape drive like the one in the video? Link in description is no longer valid

LTO drives have confidence head on them which means they sense and checksum whatever they have just recorded to verify that the data has been recorded on to the tape. No need to do a confidence check as it has been done already with any issues being reported at the end of the run. Doing a confi run will double the time to back everything up which is not needed unless you have to be doubly sure your data is on tape. This is the same in Retrospect and Pre Roll post which I use and I disable confidence check without any problems.

Any updates?

Basically he's saying it takes 30 hours just 2 back up a few terabytes 2 tape = insane = total $cam =P 15 hours 2 move, then another 15 2 'verify', & U can bet with all that 'fancy moving touching head' stuff, wears out in less than a year yes? So U R paying crazy $ 4 the hardware REPLACEMENT 2 = the 'recorder' @ least = my bet =)) What a joke = should 'do the math' B 4 buying!

Apple is genocide.

OMG Linus has his watch set to MILITARY TIME lmao that's totally something he would do, what is wrong with this man?!

It was 2019 and it was then that you found out about LTO? :D
I use a drive like this since long time ago (I am at LTO-7 now) to backup my important files, mainly raw film recordings, financial records and all my photography.

it litterally looks like a replica of shotput pro

you are my hero of the day!

To bring down costs for myself. I used a SAS drive, since I got a bunch of SAS cards cheaply.
I just have a tape autoloader library, that is rack mount, connects to my DL380G5 via SCSI (SAS drive still coming in mail, LTO3-LTO8)
And software is quite easy
I run linux on all my computers normally. So TAR is built in and is a good way to get started. Otherwise I use bacula and configured the tape library as such.
Bacula is free and open sourced. With web interface.

Total cost including the server is 1000AUD. With a 24 tape TL2000 library

I'm a bit flabbergasted, I thought this was going to be a vintage tech video. I didn't know they use tapes in modern systems but for archive data it does make sense. I wonder why they don't use special solid state drives for long term storage. Its in the name, there are no moving parts so theoretically they could last much longer, make a SSD with 30TB of storage, fill it and put it on a shelf. 100 years later it should still work or am I wrong.

My first job in LA was archiving a small media production company's project files to these LTO Tapes. Each tape also got a clone for redundancy. Took me the entire summer to get all 80 tapes loaded up with just one of these drives. Cushy job but they are SLOW.

LTO-9 is faster, about 400MB/s

Stupidly overpriced, they need regulations

Yeah, tape drives are ridiculously overpriced, but then again, I might not know hiw much it costs to manufacture them.
That being said, I still have SLR5, DDS3 and DLT4 drives. I have several of the latter and I can't make them work.

Average people don't buy tape drives because they're crazy expensive. Tape drives are crazy expensive because average people don't buy them. Then there's the garbage RTO.

Remember the 3-2-1 method:

3 copies, 2 different formats, 1 stored in a secure remote location

Decent sequential read/write
Basically non-existent random read/write

Looking back at this video, I'm wondering why tape storage is made to work like a casette tape and not more like an 8-track tape so it can go forwards or backwards to access a file. Doen't speed up much but can increase read times depending on where in the tape that file is.

I just ordered a second hand LTO 4 drive to make some archival backups to keep offsite, can't wait for it to get here so I can finally start following the 3-2-1 data backup guideline.

I don't really understand why optical discs aren't used.

That's a very expensive VHS Tape.

What! seriously?..😳

So is the file format the same as the audio cassette drives that stored programs as audio, which were accessed by 80s PCs like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair?

When are you guys gonna do Optical Disc Archive? Nobody's covering it.

Just use linux for tape drive support.....
It's what the datacentres use

Is it easy to overwrite portions of tape with new data or does the recorded data need to be written in sequence?

So, the media goes obsolete before the tape actually dies. Meaning that you have to transfer every single bit of data off of old tape to new tape every few years?

Just updated to LTO-5 at home. Prices now low enough for dives and controller interface cards on eBay.
Tape was the past and is the future. I have 25 year old tapes made on Windows NT's built in tape software that I can still read now! (On a DLT drive, not LTO-5 obviously) Also SRL tapes, and others with BackupExec, Arcserve and others.

I still say this is the future of gaming

Going back to the ZX Spectrum & Commodore era of tape drive back up.
Can somebody please tell me if the computer's CPU is capable of faster processing speeds than the tape drive can offer playback speed?
& If so, why isn't there a challenge of trying to fit .... let's say, 1GB of data, into a couple of hundreds of MB on the same tape space?
I suppose anything is possible, but you would need a powerful bit of software to do it from a 5 star general programmer?

A track lives on the same tech used in the movie Rogue One the scene to get the planes of the death star. Well done again fantastic video reminds me of a track, simple and straightforward history lesson.

I wonder what a random read write test would turn out.

does actually have somewhere a new decent computer to get rid of ? thanks.

Goofy ahh background music 💀

So, did you keep tape? 3 years later, what ended up happening?

FINALLLY SOMEONE WHO YSES THESE

thats a fuclking annoying song

if it wasn't for IBM

5D optical data storage

You're welcome linus