EDIT: It has found a home.
Free to a good home: One Hewlett Packard C2262A Storage System with seven SCSI drive bays. Two are currently populated by hard drives, one by a caddy-loading CD reader, and one by a tape drive. The faceplate of the CD reader had been held on by masking tape. 💿
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#FreeToAGoodHome #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #HewlettPackard #HP #TapeDrive #SCSI
I just had the idea of starting to experiment with tape drives for backups.
Someone stop me please
I wished @thisdoesnotcomp made a #playlist with his #BackgroundMusic and called it something like: "#SmoothJazz to think about #ObsoleteMedia and restore #VintageComputers to" or something...
Also besides #Zip & #Jaz, #iomega also had a QIC #TapeDrive called #ditto which also had the same case design like the former, but in a bordeaux-coloured plastic case in the external, parallel port version...
I have one laying around, somewhere...
Komisch will partout keine Musik abspielen... #CDC #ControlData #Tapedrive
Cleaning and testing a 1531 tape drive. Courtesy of @eazy. This one only had mechanical issues. Watching a tape load is kind of mesmerizing.
#commodore #plus4 #datassette #tapedrive #retrocomputing
@raccoon what kind of discs?
I mean I'd love to be able to afford an #LTO9 - #TapeDrive...
The number of times yearly that I regret giving away my 5.25" floppy drive or my QIC tape drive to electronic recycling is NONZERO.
This C64 Game Uses A Datassette as a Controller
#c64 #commodore64 #datassette #tapedrive #controller
https://theoasisbbs.com/this-c64-game-uses-a-datassette-as-a-controller/?_unique_id=6726a68669b4f
This Vintage Computing Device is No Baby Food https://hackaday.com/2024/07/20/this-vintage-computing-device-is-no-baby-food/ #Retrocomputing #retrocomputer #tapedrive
Where can one buy LTO drives and tapes in the USA besides Amazon?
I'm considering buying one and have a friend of mom who lives in the US bring it here.
#LTO #Tape #Backup #LinearTapeOpen #LTOUltrium #Ultrium #Tapes #DataHoarder #TapeDrives #LTODrives #TapeDrive #LTODrive #LinearTapeOpenUltrium #LTOUltriumDrive
@ButtonMcLemming @CliffWade +9001%
Sadly optical media standards don't grow with the need for more storage and whilst #TapeDrive|s do, modern versions of #LTO #Ultrium are absurdly expensive so unless one needs to backup Petabytes offline it doesn't make financial sense...
Personally I prefer the form factor of 3,5" #FDD|s but their abysmal capacity makes them rather useless these days.
Which is why I suggest to replace the magnetic film with a #SSD in the same shell:
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy
How hard it will be to have a lock in your org, which only opens if 3 out of 5 cyberadmins plug in their *physical* key to open a paper containing credentials to your air gapped tape backup?
Why we need to be so over dependent on #bigtech cloud for resilience?
@roman78 @jamesrylandmiller @neurovagrant doesn't change the fact that it's also copyrighted and even then I've yet to see any #Android - #ROM that didn't remove it from it's #Kernel...
After all it's unlikely a need for users similar to how most Desktop users don't need #LTFS because even if they knew what #LTO #TapeDrive|s are they are even less likely to own one...
Today, I #madethings. I am #uploading them. Now I #Sleep.
Tomorrow, I tell the server to #scrub itself. Our #zfs pool has been very slow all week. I am #worried.
I REALLY need a #tapedrive but it’s a couple of grand we don’t have.
In the meantime, have me being sarcastic about a stupid truck.
I've got one last retro computer post from the archives: when I got my Commodore 64 back in March 1989, I had only a tape drive - the 1530 Datasette -- in the first couple of weeks. It was so cumbersome and slow that it was soon followed by the 1541-II floppy drive. But I've still got the Datasette and a few tapes! Does anyone remember those games?
#vintage #computer #vintagecomputer #retrocomputing #commodore #c64 #datasette #tapedrive #cassette https://blog.bibra.eu/2013/12/15/vintage-computing-the-datasette/
Up to 45TB backup thanks LTO 9 http://pixly.link/lto9 Future generations will offer much more space, ideal to make the backup of the backup of the backup.
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Anyone else here a fan of #tapedrive ? For me it's by far the cheapest way to store just about anything... I can still find new LTO-3 tapes (400-800 GB) on ebay for under 10 EUR and I only payed 50 EUR for this old HP drive :-) I wrote a few scripts to do regular automated backups of our server that are also logged and reported in emails
