Invisible wrote:
> Tape operates at much lower speeds. And since the only people who use 
> tape are people who want seriously reliable backup storage, it tends to 
> be very well engineered. (And stupidly expensive...)

More reliable than (say) three spinning backups?

Plus, you'll *always* be able to find a machine capable of reading your HD 
before it wears out. What would you do with a stack of 9-track tape backups 
today?

> Harddrives do die occasionally. It's quite rare, but it does happen from 
> time to time. Either you accept the resulting data loss, or you take a 
> backup copy.

Right. You make two, actually.

> Myself, I don't have any backup copies because I can't think of anything 
> nearly big enough to backup to...

A hard drive the size of your current hard drives is too small?

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