[geeks] The Wisdom of the Collective: Removable media

[Mouse]

> I'm getting tired of the cleaning and maintenance issues of a
> standalone external tape drive and my otherwise-excellent backup
> software's increasingly poor handling of standalone tape drives.

> With my monthly full backups currently over 1.6TB, [...]

Personally, I use spinning-rust drives; for my backups, the price of
solid-state outweighs the speed and physical ruggedness.

But, for monthly backups, I find that I don't actually need a removable
drive.  Power-cycling the relevant host once a month for a disk swap is
not that big a price; I keep that disk on a machine that does little
enough else that I find that acceptable.

For me.  You may disagree - I'm just mentioning the possibility in case
you hadn't even considered it.

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