Acronis is a cheap solution from a big company.

Archiware is more tailored to M&E, but yeah it’s expensive.

I saw this on B&H. I suppose they never figured out M1 MACs?

An LTO tape library configured somewhat as a “Tape NAS” would be ideal. I’m vendor neutral and deal with all the software and hardware vendors. A disk system that only spins up when you need to access files isn’t quite a thing, other than single hard drives that’ll be in a semi-sleep state, but performance is terrible, and the words “archive”…

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This article written by George Saliba, an inventor, of well known tape technologies, states the enormous downsides of using an LTO drive in a vertical position versus horizontal like normal companies do. Some may think that is aesthetically pleasing to mount their drives vertically, but it’s putting their customers at a disadvantage.

Full…

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I’d reach out to Maxx Digital, they will be able to sell you a SAS card.

You might be able to use YoYotta’s TAR restore function to retrieve your files. https://yoyotta.com/help/demo.html

Archiware is launching LTFS support for P5 Archive tomorrow for MAC, Windows and Linux.

I’m told they have their own LTFS code written, so you won’t have to chase after all the different OEM versions of LTFS. YoYotta (MAC) and XenData (WIN) are the only other desktop / library drive LTFS software companies that write their own LTFS code to…

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If you’re using an IBM tape in an HP drive it can be throwing the write errors on LTO6. If you keep getting cleaning warnings, then the head can be bad on the drive.

Using the wrong media type ruins the head over time.

For 40TB a NAS with a cloud backup would be perfectly fine. QNAP is a great choice.

With BackBlaze be warned that it is not for backups only and not archive. You must keep the original data on the source NAS or they delete it from the cloud backup eventually.

I’m an LTO tape guy, but wouldn’t recommend it in your situation unless it’s what you…

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Tim Jones,

I’m a bit curious how you took me stating that Thunderbolt 3 has a certification for Windows and MAC, and saying it’s relating to your M1 driver? The OP was mentioning it didn’t work on Windows for him as well and I noticed OWC advertises Windows compatibility, while not holding Intel / Thunderbolt certification for Windows per the Intel…

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I’d say talk to Media Transfer Service in NY to safely move the tapes over.

http://mediatransferservice.com/

You potentially have a bad drive or bad tape cartridge.

Since you said HP LTO6, I have to ask. What brand of cartridges are you using? You need to be using metal particle (MP) tapes in an HP LTO6. Sony and other off-brands made the MP LTO6 tapes before, but they’ve stopped making them for quite a while. If you have IBM or Fuji those are…

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Thunderbolt 3 devices require a strict certification for both Windows and MAC. OWC has not passed certification for Windows, so that’s why you’re probably not getting anywhere. MagStor is the only Thunderbolt 3 drive certified for Windows, and also has Apple M1 compatibility to boot.

Anyone serious about preserving their data shouldn’t use dead…

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MagStor Thunderbolt 3 LTO drives now work on M1 MACs.

The H680 is a great card to use with LTO drives, but it went end of life last month since manufacturing is heading towards PCI-E 4. The H1280 12G version is going to be the new champ with a $100 higher price tag.

We have our MagStor Thunderbolt 3 LTO drivers ready. We’re just waiting for approval to release them to the public.

I’m responsible for the MagStor LTO brand and get to play with most of the software out there.

For MAC desktop drives using LTFS you have YoYotta, Imagine Products (myLTO + PreRollPost) as the only real options in my opinion. Then there is Hedge, which was mentioned before…

YoYotta ($490) you get the full package with verification and a…

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Mike,

Cache uses standard TAR, so you can use any LTO3 or LTO4 drive to restore those. Let me know if you’d like me to get you a quote for a drive to use, or we can offer Cache restores as a service if you send them in to us.