Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?
what i want to know is who is still buying tape backups? lto-8 tapes are $85 for 12TB. that&#x27;s not actually that stellar- you might not believe what good enterprise hard drives sell for!- but it&#x27;s still 2 log2 orders of magnitude cheaper. it&#x27;s throughput is faster than hard drives too! latency, alas, well, yeah, not so good. ;)<p>alas tape is just so niche. sadly. because it&#x27;s so economically awesome &amp; sensible. there&#x27;s something so excellent about offline media, not-so-near-line media, endless reams of tape, bought cheap. endless storage, deep backups. and durable, easy to ship off.<p>vhs? meh. i see no reason to have any interest in vhs. tape drives though: i still just imagine a hard drive platter, endlessly unwinding. magnetic storage space, endlessly unfurling.