• fishos@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If you want to search and index it, you don’t want to do that on tapes. It’s doable, but difficult. And what benefits tapes gain in reliability/long term storage, a RAID system would negate. Cheaper large SSDs make these kinds of systems more economical to the average person.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 minutes ago

      Right! Forgot about that aspect of Tape drives. Haven’t messed with them before personally, so TIL 😁