[geeks] Disks: recommendations?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 10/30/20 3:09 PM, Mouse wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I off-site with LTO, but that's only because of
>> the price of SSDs and speed doesn't matter for disaster-recovery in
>> my use case.
> 
> LTO?  Isn't that a tape technology?

It is.  It's pretty much the de-facto industry standard now, currently
up to LTO8.

> I'd be tempted, but my (severely limited, of course) experience is that
> tape media is even more likely to lose bits than disk drives - and is
> substantially more expensive in dollars-per-byte as well.

I changed my backup scheme from disk-to-disk-to-tape to
disk-to-disk-to-removable-disk precisely because I got utterly sick of
replacing my LTO drive every couple of years.  IMO, don't even think
about using LTO without a clean-room environment, unless you have money
to burn on replacement drives.


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