Sony Replacing Tape With Optical Disc Archive System

[back_by_demand]

If Sony are trying to foist another proprietary storage medium on the world, why not re-invent Betamax as a tape storage solution. All the millions of un-used tapes now have a new purpose in life.

 

[tleavit]

Its 2012, who actually still uses tapes????

 

[spasmolytic46]

[citation][nom]tleavit[/nom]Its 2012, who actually still uses tapes????[/citation]

I do! this is for my QIC-3010

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]WyomingKnott[/nom]Twelve platters in a removable cartridge? Sounds like a great step - backwards.[/citation]
[citation][nom]kawininjazx[/nom]This is for enterprise and larger businesses I imagine, I don't think home users are a concern.[/citation]

I agree. But consumers are now routinely buying PCs with 1TB+ of storage space and there is simply no practical means to back up these drives for the day they fail. (Not a question of 'if' but 'when') or get stolen.

Backup therefore should be external (i.e. in case of a stolen PC/Laptop). Cloud is not an option as our internet speeds are too slow and an external HD is obviously prone to all sorts of failures too; including me having a clumsy day and dropping it.

Maybe Tom's should offer a poll amongst its users how we do our backups, if any !

 

[WyomingKnott]

Maybe Tom's should offer a poll amongst its users how we do our backups, if any !

Hot-swap SATA drives in my case. File backups of data drives, and image backup of my OS SSD. I've tested restoring the image backup and booting; it works just fine.

While I only active use four of them, I've got fourteen external drives around. Most are in an antistatic hard case: http://www.turtlecase.com/ProductDetails.aspx?productid=610&parentid=0&directoryid=11&ctrl=productdetails