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RIMRtoday at 4:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

From the article:

>This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

Look, I know that a certain percentage of Tom's Hardware articles are just sales pitches for a NAS, but this is asinine. Iron Mountain deals largely in tape storage. 50TB of tapes fits in one of their small archive boxes. If they're using the latest tech (LTO-9), it fits on 3 tapes.

This is exactly how you are supposed to store archival media for decades, not on a NAS. A NAS is for storing the files you need to actively access.


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Melatonictoday at 5:52 PM

How do we know the content isn't on BetacamXR or straight film reels ?

evikstoday at 5:39 PM

Not really, you're never "supposed to" rely on a single company with 3 tapes for your only copy