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bmonkey325 51 days ago | parent

And you have to preserve the mechanism that wrote the tape. Eg. LTO-8 drives can read LTO-7 and LTO-8 tape, but not LTO-6 tape.

I have a complicated relationship with LTO, QIC and QIC mini. Mostly it works but it senses fear like printers …

Borg 51 days ago
Right... You basically need to move data too to newer format.. Ill stay with my HDDs ;) (for now).
- bmonkey325 50 days ago
  For hard drives that are powered off for a long time "stiction" is a real concern. Yes I know, parked heads and all that, but powered off HDs for many years with varying temps/humidity gives my nether region a pucker thinking of the data loss
  - Borg 50 days ago
    Yeah.. I store them at home, so temp is 23-28 deg. Usually in those plastic little boxes there were sold in. I know they will eventually fail. I just do NOT have cheap reliable option to store backups. Those disks are leftover of upgrades, like.. 20GB, 120GB, 320GB, 1TB :) Some are reused in cheap USB ext cases that have IDE/SATA connectors.