Great video, been toying with getting into LTO tapes myself. Might go LTO6 but that is getting on the pricey side, but still somewhat obtainable. Around 1k for a drive off ebay.
Thank you for the video. I don't use LTO tapes very often. Could you explain why you didn't tar directly to the tape using the 'tar -f /dev/st0' option? I see that you piped tar into dd
My friend keeps talking about wanting a nas, but cant just take the bullet and pick if he wants a cheep low nas or a expensive fast one. cant wait to annoy him by suggesting to use tape. I just dont understand why he cant just pick the slow nas and put shit he wants on a fast working drive.
Many people, especially when they start out, don't have a feel what's "slow" or "fast" for them, and the numerous tech UA-camrs that create videos every month with titles like "IDEAL NAS FOR HOME" don't help, because they just peddle the current tech gizmo You should also start asking him about supported filesystems, caches and protocols he plans to use ; >
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Great video, been toying with getting into LTO tapes myself. Might go LTO6 but that is getting on the pricey side, but still somewhat obtainable. Around 1k for a drive off ebay.
Since I published the vid I got told that lots of companies are replacing lto5 now and they might come down with price
Thank you for the video. I don't use LTO tapes very often. Could you explain why you didn't tar directly to the tape using the 'tar -f /dev/st0' option? I see that you piped tar into dd
I'm just used to using dd when working with block devices, but now that I think about it, i'd say with dd you can also specify blocksize parameter
My friend keeps talking about wanting a nas, but cant just take the bullet and pick if he wants a cheep low nas or a expensive fast one. cant wait to annoy him by suggesting to use tape.
I just dont understand why he cant just pick the slow nas and put shit he wants on a fast working drive.
Many people, especially when they start out, don't have a feel what's "slow" or "fast" for them, and the numerous tech UA-camrs that create videos every month with titles like "IDEAL NAS FOR HOME" don't help, because they just peddle the current tech gizmo
You should also start asking him about supported filesystems, caches and protocols he plans to use ; >