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I want tape to add a LTO4 or LTO 5 tape drive to a home office Windows 7 based PC as I do not want the fragility of storing data on delicate hard drives, or coming to it in a few years and finding the drive won't spin up, or someone has dropped it and knackered it. I consider the fairly simple tape cassette more suited to my storage needs. It's not so much to be as a backup medium, but more as a long term storage medium. Having looked into LTO4 and LTO5 drives my concern is how to connect them to a small home office conventional PC? My motherboard does not have SAS ports, and only pretty old LTO drives seemed to have used SCSI. I assume some have met this need with a controller card of some sort? Can this plug into a normal Windows home PC type modern motherboard and allow a SAS tape drive to run from it? Would it, or a similar type of card, also allow me to run my two software RAID1 mirrored internal back up drives, which are SATA III enterprise drives, off it, in a proper hardware RAID1? Many thanks, people think I am mad looking at tape, but I think they haven't understood that my need is for long term, away from a PC, data STORAGE more than a daily back up regime / medium.
Best regards,
Best regards,