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Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS?
New submitter hey_popey writes "I would like to piggyback on a previous Ask Slashdot question. Do you know of any realistic way to use a tape drive solution at home, not as a backup, but as a regular NAS? I would like, for example, to save the torrents of my Linux distributions on it, and at the same time, play the family videos on a computer. It would seem at a first glance that the transfer rates and capacity of Linear Tape-Open (1.5TB, 280MB/s in 2010) and the functionality of LTFS would allow me to do that, but I don't know the details, or whether this would be economically viable."
I agree that a tape solution would not work well for torrent files, however using it to store movies should work well. If you wish to market it, I can suggest a name for it. You could call it a VCR. But whenever you do, do not call it Betamax, I don't think that would sell very well.
Leave him alone! help me with my RAIF - Redundant Array of Independent Floppies
Forget LTO, I recommend a massive array of Sinclair Microdrives. I mean, if you're going for a silly and impractical tape solution, you might as well push the boat out.
Oh no... it's the future.
Have you considered punch cards? You can get a vintange IBM 370 for only a few hundred thousand and a warehouse to store all the punch cards for just several million. Put it in China and you can have a few servants ravage up with forklifts and storage boxes with the cards and scramble to put them in the reader and upload it back to your home media server.
I mean who cares about using a cheap $200 external usb drive like everyone else pretending we somehow live in the 21st century ... pfft
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The station wagon analogy is an amusing analogy to bring up, because if you're willing to wait for videos to stream off of tape, why not just use your station wagon to go to a video store or Redbox?
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