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[Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx>]

> FYI: Media that has an alignment track laid down by the manufacturer
> will be destroyed by using a tape degausser, so a quick test to see if
> your drive uses an alignment track is to take a tape media you plan to
> throw-out and run a $30 tape degauser across it.  If the tape fails to
> work at all, then you had an alignment track.
> 
> FYI2: I don't know if most tape drives today have alignment capability
> or not.  I do know that DDR4 type drives of 10 years ago did not.  And
> the LTO-1 drives I use do.

I've demonstrated, multiple times, dropping an LTO tape from waist
height, kicking it across the floor so that it bounces of the wall,
inserting it into a drive.... and reading data.  Do that with a HD in a
USB caddy.  Modern tape, unless you crush the enclosure, is just this
side of impervious.

But if you want to have 50+ USB chassis with hard drives to cycle your
backup on then by all means.  If you believe you will have less failures
then with tape I can't help but think your nuts.

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