DV tapes as backup device? Impossible?

[krackato]

Well, I saw the thread about DV cameras, and I had a thought. Those DV tapes take about 14gigs to dump 1 hour of video to a drive, so wouldn't it be theoretically possible to fit 14gb of data on to them? I mean, it's all just 1's and 0's. Is this possible? Is anyone working on this? If not, why not? With all of these huge harddrives that we have now, it's getting harder and harder to backup everything you need to economically and the best solution is starting to seem like buying another harddrive.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: krackato
Well, I saw the thread about DV cameras, and I had a thought. Those DV tapes take about 14gigs to dump 1 hour of video to a drive, so wouldn't it be theoretically possible to fit 14gb of data on to them? I mean, it's all just 1's and 0's. Is this possible? Is anyone working on this? If not, why not? With all of these huge harddrives that we have now, it's getting harder and harder to backup everything you need to economically and the best solution is starting to seem like buying another harddrive.

I don't know, but, I like the idea

 

[Gunbuster]

Yea its called a DLT tape drive and costs around $5,000

My guess is DV tapes have little or no error correction (ok for video, bad for data)