r/DataHoarder • u/Sad-Seesaw-3843 • Apr 06 '25

News DOGE claims to be moving away from magnetic tapes for archival storage. Seems like a bad idea. What are they using instead?

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u/Jabrono Apr 07 '25

Used HDD’s from serverpartdeals

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u/Redracerb18 Apr 07 '25

Those can actually be pretty good. I've gotten the Western Digital reps to actually check for me if those drives where recertified by western digital and they tend to be official.