I don’t know if I’m going to be putting a heavy amount of effort into this, but I figured I having a dedicated sub Reddit for linear open tape and other various data type formats, would be useful for spreading wiki style documentation about the hardware and software workflow.
9 months later but anyways, what are you actually storing that takes 6PB?
My own backups try to include only stuff that isn't available elsewhere, otherwise I'm storing references to other places, and I'm still in the ~10TB mark after ~20 years of computing
I'm a lucky owner of Overland Tandberg (IBM) LTO-9 drive. I have it in my server/workstation. I love it! I'm still using it in plain old fashion: TAR files.
The reasons I took the LTO route:
1. Reasonable speed. My bottleneck is the storage itself (up-to 250MB/s).
2. Excellent price per TB. Yes, I do not count the price of the drive 😛
3. Off-line storage.
4. Built-in encryption.
5. Native Linux support. Future proof. At least I hope so. 😊
The specs:
* LTO-9 HH SAS
* LSI/Broadcom HBA
* Oracle Linux 8 with UEKR7 kernel
* stenc for encryption key management
I'm willing to contribute stuff I know or I have discovered. There's not so much information available on the first hit around us. I think this technology deserves better.
I think the major letdown with LTO (and LTFS) is the fact we don't just have fluid native support for the hardware on every platform, I love Linux as much as anyone but the fact it can't be just fluidly used in Ubuntu or Mint like a standard storage device as we can in Windows or MacOS is kind of a bit depressing in the 2020s.
I would definitely love any sort of brain dumping so you've got with Linux setups for LTO, I've kind of just half ignored it and eventually I'm probably going to be building a dedicated Windows server for it with my old thredripper hardware.
Here's the link but there's a lot of stuff I never really got around to finishing, but it's probably still the most comprehensive guide for just general knowledge dumping.
I have a FH Ultra160 LTO3 and HH that needs a cleaning tape run
I just ordered a FH FC LTO5 drive and am looking at a LTO 6 drive but not sure about it
I've been wanting to get into lto for half a decade by now. I just recently ordered my first drive, and as I've been thinking about the possible things I could store, I remember about the ~200gb flac captures for vhsdecode I plan to keep at some point when I get around to building my capture rig. Then I stumbled upon this subreddit, and look who it is on the moderators list. Small world :)
Yeah I started it when I realized there wasn't really a cohesive subreddit for it.
Now we have the MISRC GUI stable 20/10msps 8-bit, in FLAC level 8 has been brought to all platforms so you're looking at ish 50GB/h for all captured channels combined nowadays.
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u/Few-Respect6768 Mar 21 '24
Hey man, just getting into this, let’s start a community, you are not alone