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So I got this tape drive, and this tape. What's on it, I wonder?
[sp]the filenames[/sp]
Amazing
I never realized how mechanical tapes were
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;39525951]I never realized how mechanical tapes were[/QUOTE]
as a kid i was dead scared of our old VHS because i didn't want my fingers lobbed off if i got too close.
putting in a tape was a, get in get out, type of business.
Mmm, Dat 72
The High school I went to was using Magnetic Tapes for backups till around 2007. They still had some spare tape reels and a recorder.
[QUOTE=Whomobile;39526199]The High school I went to was using Magnetic Tapes for backups till around 2007. They still had some spare tape reels and a recorder.[/QUOTE]
Wait, they don't use tapes for backups anymore? Why not?
[QUOTE=Brt5470;39526238]Wait, they don't use tapes for backups anymore? Why not?[/QUOTE]
I think ours ditched them in favour of ~[I]The Cloud[/I]~
Aka: Let's put all of the important information in charge of an outside company
The old system was a lot better, daily backups of commonly lost shit goes on two 2tb external drives, weekly and monthly backups of important shit go to tapes, which are kept at the Sysadmin's house
It's pretty amazing that tapes are still used. People think of discs being the best way to store data and backups, but the dyes and stuff that hold the data can actually degrade if not stored correctly. Degrading can happen to tape too, but I believe it takes a bit longer.
I think Blu-Ray discs use a different method of data etching which can allow the disc to have a [I]projected[/I] lifespan of like 100 years or so.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;39526238]Wait, they don't use tapes for backups anymore? Why not?[/QUOTE]
Because no one made the tapes or the equipment to run the tapes they used anymore.
[editline]9th February 2013[/editline]
Plus the equipment was made in the 80's and couldn't be fixed if it broke down.
[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;39526308]It's pretty amazing that tapes are still used. People think of discs being the best way to store data and backups, but the dyes and stuff that hold the data can actually degrade if not stored correctly. Degrading can happen to tape too, but I believe it takes a bit longer.
I think Blu-Ray discs use a different method of data etching which can allow the disc to have a [I]projected[/I] lifespan of like 100 years or so.[/QUOTE]
Tapes degrade with use, however. Get worn and such. Discs don't really do that.
[QUOTE=Riller;39526703]Tapes degrade with use, however. Get worn and such. Discs don't really do that.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but that's why they're better for backup and archival purposes.
I wish I could afford tape drives. The units are horribly expensive (the drives) and I have a lot of things I'd like to have redundant backups for.
That was a very elegant dropping of the tape at the end.
My dad still uses tapes for personal backups and he uses them at work to backup the thousands of medical records that the local hospital servers have to eat through on a daily basis, they've tried different methods over the years from using DVDs and HDDs for long term backups but they found high cap tapes just lasted longer and could hold more, they are now on their 4th tape system which is the only downside, the drives tend to die long before the tapes themselves do.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;39527313]I wish I could afford tape drives. The units are horribly expensive (the drives) and I have a lot of things I'd like to have redundant backups for.[/QUOTE]
I got a drive for $40.
I also needed a SCSI controller to make it work that has issues in 64-bit windows. :v:
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