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IgorM
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There is really no advantage to storing data on tape rather than storing it on hard drives for the average person. The equipment and supplies to convert digital to tape, than back to digital, completely outweigh any and all benefit for a single individual. Here are some links showing costs:

Tapes

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As you can see, it's ridiculous, and not worth it. 

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2 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

There is really no advantage to storing data on tape rather than storing it on hard drives for the average person. The equipment and supplies to convert digital to tape, than back to digital, completely outweigh any and all benefit for a single individual. Here are some links showing costs:

Tapes

Reader

As you can see, it's ridiculous, and not worth it. 

I get it. Found out about prices after searching online for lto readers, even though tape itself is cheap

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You're going to be dead long before your hard drives or SSDs lose the data on them.

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The most cost-effective compromise for you would be to purchase some data center-grade hard drives with outstanding warranties and endurance, and put them inside an enclosure. For extra protection, you can plug your storage solution into a high quality surge protector. You wont have to worry as much about hard drive failure especially if you use a combination of drives for a RAID array.


The best RAID solutions for data backups would be:

Raid 5 (Requires 3 drives or more, 1 Drive Failure is OK)
Raid 6 (Requires 4 drives or more, 2 Drive Failures are OK)

 

There could be others, but I'm not an expert.

 

You can also use a cloud solution if you don't mind paying any extra fees that are associated with them.

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