Seriously, why are #LTO9 drives so expensive?

I know why we don't have these in regular desktops but c'mon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEVQSuB8xyQ

#LTO #Ultrium #LTOultrium #Tape #TapeDrives #Data #Storage #Archival #DataStorage #Backups

LTO снова в моде. Чего ждать от нового, десятого поколения лент

Тренд на ленты возвращается. Много лет про LTO было практически не слышно — их использовали только те организации, которым нужно хранить данные более 15 лет, например проектные и геолого-разведочные компании, архивные фонды. Но шифровальщики и программы-вымогатели увеличили спрос. Сейчас даже те, кому не надо так долго хранить терабайты данных, начали смотреть в сторону LTO, чтобы иметь отчуждаемые в офлайн резервные копии. Заказчики, для которых мы подбираем решения on-premise, тоже устанавливают себе ленточные приводы, чтобы иметь возможность физически отделять данные от доступа извне. Перед выходом LTO-10 решили посмотреть, что там вообще с ленточными технологиями и как они себя чувствуют в эпоху NVME.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/mclouds/articles/893936/

#хранение_данных #бэкап #резервное_копирование #lto #lto6 #lto9 #итинфраструктура #lto10

@raccoon what kind of discs?

#BDXL-#MDISC|s?

I mean I'd love to be able to afford an #LTO9 - #TapeDrive...

@dankeykang nodds in agreement

I see you are a person of culture as well!

• Tho sadly I've yet to afford a nice #LTO9 #Taper / #Autoloader or similar media and I'm shure it'll be cheaper for me to build a working #NeoFloppy drive than buying one of those...

So you can imagine the envy I have right now...

@iotar @NanoRaptor would be #20PercentCooler if it was a #LTO9-Tape drive for up to 45TB of removeable storage to #backup even the girthiest of #FinalCut-Projects!

@GnuPG @todd_a_jacobs Using #LTFS to store #encrypteddata outside of hyper scaler environments without the dedicated #KMS components expensive tape libraries use to enable #LTO9 drives' built-in, hardware #AES256GCM support is an area the institute is evaluating, and thinking about how #GPG might fit in has been a facet of our research process.

All recent generations of #LTO drives support strong, on-the-fly, hardware-accelerated encryption on the drives themselves. Sadly, it's essentially useless in the standalone drives sold to individuals, the #SOHO market, or to other non-enterprise customers because of the high cost of the tape library hardware required to activate it.

In some ways, the situation is much like the early Intel 386 computers that shipped with missing or disabled math coprocessors even when it stopped being a cost issue. In part, that was a strategic market segmentation decision, and the institute currently believes the lack of accessible LTFS encryption for all encryption-capable drives is no different.

Even though #GnuPG is usually thought of as primarily an email tool, it's actually an important "Swiss Army knife" for a variety of #infosec use cases. It's also on a tragically short list of #OpenPGP and telatrd #cryptography tools that remains fully #opensource.

We're putting this topic on our agenda for further exploration and discussion. Meanwhile, these community conversations and the viewpoints of respected tool developers is an invaluable resource to everyone.

I've had some experience with secure #laptop hardware & software from @purism. They also make the #Purism #Key for secure boot, which I wrote about in #LinuxJournal some years back. Before that I used to buy hardware from a #Linux-focused reseller that shifted to a training company.

I like the ease-of-use the macOS ecosystem provides, but with MS #SpywareOS & Apple's flight from #FOSS to ever more proprietary software, I'd like to revisit #LinuxLaptops & #LTO9 servers.

Suggestions?

The #SMB market lacks affordable, off-the-shelf solutions for encrypted #LTO9 backups. However, there are effective #DIY options if you have basic knowledge of encrypted filesystems and #LTFS. While self-service requires more effort, cloud providers are all vastly more expensive at scale—and often still use the same basic equipment, minus robotic tape libraries and #keymanagement capabilities. You also won't need to trust your cloud provider with secret keys, manage third-party key escrow, or courier physical tapes for large-scale ransomware recovery operations.

If you don't already have a cost-effective plan for ransomware recovery, it's never too late to start—unless you wait until after your online systems have been compromised, of course. Please don't do that!

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