Comment Comment by m463 As a person instead of a company, can't you just buy a stack of hard drives instead of a stack of tapes?Even with the inflated prices nowadays 3tb 3.5" sata drives are cheaper than 2.5tb LTO-6 tapes.Personally I don't trust optical. I had some DVD-RW drives and many of them became unreadable after a very short time.(I don't know what the absolute vs practicate reliability factors are for any of these)EDIT: Hmmm... https://www.howtogeek.com/the-thousand-year-disc-that-failed... parent m463 26 days ago
Even with the inflated prices nowadays 3tb 3.5" sata drives are cheaper than 2.5tb LTO-6 tapes.
Personally I don't trust optical. I had some DVD-RW drives and many of them became unreadable after a very short time.
(I don't know what the absolute vs practicate reliability factors are for any of these)
EDIT: Hmmm... https://www.howtogeek.com/the-thousand-year-disc-that-failed...