Unfortunately I do also need to run Linux, to a degree, so I'm using a distribution that removes the DRM.
Unfortunately I do also need to run Linux, to a degree, so I'm using a distribution that removes the DRM.
If you are storing enough data that you are even considering tape, the cost of your tapes is going to be just as much as a second hand drive fairly quickly and the break even point against HDDs is like 5-6 HDDs or tapes.
LTO-7 has 6TB of capacity per tape, so I suppose I could get away with... well, ten or so? But it'd be a lot more manual work, and the tape drives are far more expensive than four 8TB HDDs.
With tape, there's also the issue that if you only have one tape drive, you don't know if your tapes are readable in anything else.
A single 16TB Helium sealed HDD is 350USD (https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-g...).
When you mentioned tape, I was assuming you had a lot more data than just 13TB. Normally I hear people mention it with like 100+TB.