Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
    • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Tape makes an excellent, dirt cheap, large scale backup solution. You can get a 30 TB tape for 45 bucks.

      • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Wish smaller scale tape storage was more viable for home use (homelab scale). Would love to have tapes instead of spinning drives for something like a home media server.

        Last time I looked into it I didn’t even know where to start. Is it more feasible now? I’d imagine power consumption would also be better than keeping disks spinning all the time.