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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

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[–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's why I initially got them to reorganize my raid setup and have them as backups in case I need them. So I'm using lto4 which is 800gb per tape (current standard is lto9 16TB per tape) And it really depends on how cheap you can get the drive for me I got a tape drive for like 200€ and bought bunch of tapes ~50 for 6€ per tape if you can get a LTO5 drive for a similar price you would only need half the amount of tapes. So all in for me it was 500€ but you can definitely buy less tapes if you don't need that many all at once. For your 30tb that would be 228€ in tapes.

It was great fun researching the topic and comparing different eBay listings for hours 😅

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Interesting; I'll definitely have to keep that in mind. Much cheaper than getting basically a whole new set of hdds at almost $30/tb (new nas-grade drives, not referbs).

Thanks!