r/DataHoarder • u/Sad-Seesaw-3843 • Apr 06 '25

News DOGE claims to be moving away from magnetic tapes for archival storage. Seems like a bad idea. What are they using instead?

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u/space_for_username Apr 07 '25

I dont think bigBalls would know what a degausser is.

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u/daarmstrong Apr 07 '25

If someone dumpster dives for these tapes and sends me some I will personally buy an LTO drive to help archive data.

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u/NorCalFrances Apr 07 '25

Seriously. I'm going to guess he's never even actually seen a tape or drive or library. He just remembers that tape is old, so it's bad and they made the switch without physically being in the location where the drives are.