Needless to say, Fujifilm is citing generative AI and other AI-related services as major drivers behind the growing demand for magnetic tape

LTO-10 tapes were released earlier this year, providing a native capacity of 40 terabytes.

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      4 days ago

      cloud backup for anything actually important is just so damn silly

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        4 days ago

        It has it’s uses.
        But as any backup solution: Not a singular.
        A proper backup concept has at least 3 copies on at least 2 different medias (types or amount matters only slightly) and one is not at the location of the original.

        Veeam (a backup vendor) has expanded on it with 3-2-1-1-0.
        1 = 1 Backup target is an immutable technology
        0 = 0 errors on the backup (which expects a validation)

        And I honestly like the idea.

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          4 days ago

          yea no thx

          especially if im paying for it

          ot that im surprised companies would get lazy/cheap

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            4 days ago

            You pay either way.
            Up front or over a span of time…
            What matters is what you need from your storage.

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                3 days ago

                Again: It depends.

                I would use it as a storage provider on which I would put an encrypted veracrypt drive (or whatevee is the good stuff).
                Or as an off-site storage provider for my backup.

                As a single atorage site? Nah. Too expensive for my home needs.
                For a business? If you can’t afford to drop 1200€ for 3x 4TB SSDs to bring your data backups off-site? Pretty good offering.
                And the immutability is a plus as well.

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                    3 days ago

                    Our clients use S3 as an offsite storage. About 2-3TB (deduplicated is possible) in storage usually.
                    Client is small and medium doctor offices.