[game_preservation] Long-Term Storage

[Jim Leonard]

Jerome McDonough wrote:

> 

> The big data centers these days aren't bothering with a lot of tape, 

> you'll notice.


I'm sorry, but I work for a big datacenter (petabytes) and we certainly 
still deal with tape.  It's LTO-4, so it's big, but it's still tape. 
This is because you can't ship entire racks of SAN offsite for disaster 
recovery, but a daily shipment of tapes is no problem.

I think you're correct in noting that the *small* shops don't do tape 
any more.  That's because removable hard drives, or syncing to an 
offsite facility, is much cheaper.  But it's not necessarily the fastest 
or most convenient.
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