Tape storage

I've never made a wiki page before. Please be patient with my autism.

Why?

Tape storage is commonly used type of creating backups in enterprise industry. However that didn't stop some autistic people to use it for home usage. Tape is one of three types (along with optical and magnetic) to accumulate data. They are popular because the tapes are cost effective (i.e. price per GB/TB is the best one). Because of their cheap price, they are used for daily backups. Also solutions tend to have "generations", each aiming mostly for doubling it's size. There is often a term of raw storage and compressed storage (which is 2x raw storage). Now be a smart anon and guess which size producers are printing out in labels?

How to use it?

In order to work with that you will need 3 things for your workstation:

• HBA
• Cable
• Streamer unit

Types of tape storage

• LTO - the absolute leader in this industry. AFAIK, nearly every industry is using this.
• DDS - outdated, not produced anymore, their latest generation size ceased to be even close to LTO-5 generation.
• DLT - "retarder cousin" of LTO? Also ceased to exist at some point