I recently picked up more old miscellaneous tech items for free. I got another old PoE switch, a UPS, an ancient server, and an ATX power supply (those are universally useful). I also got a broken robotic tape library. A robotic tape library is a thing that holds 50+ LTO tapes. It is basically a robot hand designed to pick up tapes and put them in tape drives. LTO tapes are like a hard drive and a VHS tape combined. So yeah, the tapes are ways of storing files. The only difference is that they can hold insane amounts of files. Each tape is about 8 TB. Sadly there is a big downside. It takes a very long time to write to LTO tapes making them only useful for computer backups and archiving. I will post more updates about the salvaged components from the tape drive, the “new” server, and will post updates about the PoE switches once those darn fans are delivered.
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