I have seen LTO around a lot, with fancy pants usb. For forward compatibility it is probably the best bet it would seem.
Though I might get open tape for just because it looks cool, though I might get one for media, rather than raw data storage. -H On 24 July 2017 17:03:29 BST, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > >On 7/24/17 8:46 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > >> The problem with Exabyte drives is they seemed to have a short shelf >life. > >Most of the rubber parts have failed in the dozens of Exabytes I have. > >LTO is the direction the world has been going for a while. They have >about three >generations of backwards compatibility, so that sets your maximum time >for media >migration. > >There is going to be a problem though if you really need to stick with >SCSI, since >the transfer rates can't be handled off of a modern LTO drive.
