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Originally Posted by Rathji
Tape Backup is so expensive per GB and slow compared to a HDD solution that it really doesn't make sense to do it at home.
I have a couple LTO drives that I am about to mothball at work because we just can't justify the cost for our increased (current and expected) data needs.
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LTO-5 is very close to HD based backup for cost effectiveness, and outruns all but my fastest RAID arrays; I can easily saturate a SAS link with tape, but my 16 spindle NAS can't. No way a single spindle HD solution hits the same throughput as LTO-5.
But at home, no it doesn't make sense
