![]() And I'm really worried about all the data saved in them will be gone one day. The reason why I want a tape drive as I have a lot of videos and DVDs (they are legal) need to transfer from my old hard disks(3). You are probably better off returning the drive and getting something non-enterprise grade if you plan to use it with a laptop. Let me say this now though: this is a BAD idea. You'll still need to supply power to the drive. I don't like recommending an adapter-on-adapter approach, but you might not have another choice besides using a SAS to Sata cable such as this:, and then a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter like this. It's SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) which is only really used in enterprise level server environments. What would an average user need 800 TB for? Specifically, this article is about why modern tape drives are a really bad choice to store the initial copy of your backups.It's been a while since I've seen a tape drive at a home setup. It’s been this way for a long time, and I’ve been saying so for at least 10 years, in case anyone thinks I’ve been swayed by my current employer. Tape is good at some things, but receiving the first copy of your backups isn’t one of them. ![]() Tape drive are too fast for incremental backups There are also reasons why you don’t want to use them for your offsite copy, and I’ll look at those, too. In case you didn’t know it, modern tape drives essentially have two speeds: stop and very fast. Yes, there are variable speed tape drives, but even the slowest speed they run at is still very fast.
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