Hey folks, being the family IT man I’ve held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years

I’ve been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don’t do anything it’s only a matter of time before I lose them

Although I’ve never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I’d ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?

It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I’d also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it’s a win win in my book

  • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    2 days ago

    tape drives seem to be the best

    Tape drives are the keytars of the tech world. They seem cool and a pro can really jam with them… but they’re not the most practical and you should really get a guitar or a keyboard until you know what you’re doing.

    Yeet your shit onto rsync.net or sth else simple and call it a day, unless you’re in it for the meme.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Tape drives are the keytars of the tech world. They seem cool and a pro can really jam with them… but they’re not the most practical and you should really get a guitar or a keyboard until you know what you’re doing.

      That made me snort. But you speak the truth. I have a Roland AX-Edge that I bought off a guy who thought it would be a good idea to play. I think he paid like $1200 for it and after the new wore off, he sold it to me for $400, basically brand new.

        • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          53 minutes ago

          I am a mediocre musician on my best day who has been playing stringed instruments for about 65 years now. I also play keyboards, tho not the piano which, imho, is a different instrument entirely. The AX-Edge is not one of my favorite instruments tho. I bought it on a whim thinking I’d give it a go and see what all the buzz was about. Back in the 80s and early part of the 90s, it seemed like everybody had one. After the initial excitement of discovering a new instrument wore off, it kind of goes south from there. The angle at which you have to strike the keys is very different than the angle of my normal keyboards/controllers which doesn’t seem like much but it gives me fits. Overall, it wasn’t worth the $400 I paid for it, tho I could probably turn it on CL for closer to the original price. The equipment itself is quite capable, it’s just one of those oddities I thought would be cool to learn, but in retrospect, $400 could have been better spent elsewhere.