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Ryde your way to disaster-recovery success

We stopped using tape in 2004 when our tape drive failed. It was then that we found it was obsolete so there we were with a load of backup tapes and unable to read any of them. We may have been able to buy a secondhand tape drive but with tape formats changing frequently, we made the decision to back up to removable hard drives, a decision we've never regretted. Hard drives are fast, capacious and cheap with a standard interface, so why use a medium which is fragile, expensive, slow and continually changing standards? I fail to see why anyone would use tape today.