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Another Masterful Gambit: #DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
DOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 #magnetictapes to digital storage. Magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term storage. Magnetic tapes are also more cost and space efficient option at the scale the government would require to back up data.
https://www.404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-tape-archives-digital-storage/
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Tom’s Hardware: U.S. Gov’t eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year, but tape isn’t dead yet. “Hopefully, no official installed at DOGE or GSA assumed that because magnetic tape has been around for such a long time, it is outdated and, therefore, a prime target for replacement with new and improved storage tech. Recently, we reported that the tech behind tape storage, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/09/toms-hardware-u-s-govt-eliminates-tape-data-storage-at-the-gsa-to-save-1m-per-year-but-tape-isnt-dead-yet/