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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • That’s why I initially got them to reorganize my raid setup and have them as backups in case I need them. So I’m using lto4 which is 800gb per tape (current standard is lto9 16TB per tape) And it really depends on how cheap you can get the drive for me I got a tape drive for like 200€ and bought bunch of tapes ~50 for 6€ per tape if you can get a LTO5 drive for a similar price you would only need half the amount of tapes. So all in for me it was 500€ but you can definitely buy less tapes if you don’t need that many all at once. For your 30tb that would be 228€ in tapes.

    It was great fun researching the topic and comparing different eBay listings for hours 😅




  • I made the mistake of not setting up encryption on my main 45TB zfs pool so I’m currently backing up everything on there to tape so I can recreate the pool (also need to change from mirrored to raidz) and then copying everything back to the drives. Although writing and reading each are around 6 days continuesly. Didn’t want to bite the bullet and pay more then I absolutely had to and only got a LTO-4 drive and tapes.















  • Wow thanks for that explanation I don’t think sailing is for me tho I live like 6 to 8 hours away from the sea and like the closest larger lake is also a couple of hours. I thought of it more like one of those hobbies where there isn’t really a limit on how much you can spend like self hosting and analog audio as I’m really bad with self control when I get into something ^^ but thank you for taking the time to explain and giving me a new perspective on sailing.