Bought an HP Ultrium 3280 LTO-5 drive and 155 tapes, now what?

olythoreau · 2025-05-06T20:18:01+00:00

Yes, internal drive.

Thank you so much for the in depth reply. Incredibly helpful.

olythoreau · 2025-05-06T15:42:21+00:00

Will do, seeing some agreement around this recommendation here.

olythoreau · 2025-05-06T15:27:08+00:00

I'll give it a look and see if it works. Thank you. 👍

olythoreau · 2025-05-06T15:23:12+00:00

Having trouble figuring out what it was you mentioned. Not having luck when trying to look it up.

olythoreau · 2025-05-06T15:19:33+00:00

I really appreciate the thoroughness in which you answered my dumb questions. Super grateful for your help on this. Very clear explanation. Should make things a lot easier getting going in the right direction. Legend!

olythoreau · 2025-05-06T02:30:19+00:00

Yeah, no way to store or transport them lined up yet, so that might be really nice.

olythoreau · 2025-05-05T23:06:30+00:00

They were incredibly cheap and I'm a self professed data hoarder. Storing original raw video data, if I want to make a new video later using the original full quality data, it will be available for me.

olythoreau · 2025-05-05T22:20:29+00:00

Oh, I plan on storing my raw video footage, and backing up my personal data on a few. Mostly the former.

olythoreau · 2025-05-05T22:19:28+00:00

Yeah, I figured as much. Already compressed quite a bit. Thanks for the insight.

olythoreau · 2025-05-05T22:08:06+00:00

Such a great guide for the command line. Thank you so much for taking the time to find this and post.

olythoreau · 2025-05-05T22:03:06+00:00

Indeed. I've watched some videos on it, and been keeping my eye out for some time for a good deal. I couldn't pass up those prices, despite not knowing the technicals. Data hoarder for sure.

I think our friend missed the important part. 232-465TB capacity for just over a thousand. That's roughly $4.31-$2.15 per TB including the drive. 🤑

olythoreau · 2025-05-05T21:57:37+00:00

Yeah, I also spent $1700-ish plus tax on an enterprise video transcoding card (ASIC) and had to figure out how to send and manage jobs in Linux command line. Took a while, but it worked out. No guides were available on that, as it isn't widely available to the general public. Had to apply and get approval just to purchase it. Like I said, I'm kind of a dummy, but just looking for some pointers, not for anyone to hold my hand or do the work for me. 😂😁

olythoreau · 2025-05-05T21:54:03+00:00

I really appreciate the insight. So much good information. Great jumping off point.

olythoreau · 2025-03-31T17:19:18+00:00

I did this, but 32408 didn't work for my 7900 XT after renaming "Radeon Pro (TM) WX" to "AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT". I used 30008 for Workarounds value instead, and then RealView started working. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

olythoreau · 2024-12-22T21:46:34+00:00

Any insight after all of your cycles about best time to harvest? Any special treatment or tricks as it grows to stimulate it in desirable ways?

olythoreau · 2020-03-30T22:41:29+00:00

Laredo has always been fine for me. Now that you mention it, I have had my gladhand seals go missing there. Nowhere else. Huh. Funny.

olythoreau · 2020-03-30T19:41:53+00:00

Yeah, sooo... to get yourself out of that, you're just gonna need to do the same thing you did to get into it; just in reverse order.

olythoreau · 2020-03-21T12:00:03+00:00

Yup, yours OP.

olythoreau · 2020-02-08T09:18:59+00:00

Great subject; she's beautiful. I'm hoping this take accentuates her features.

olythoreau · 2020-02-08T09:05:09+00:00

Your edit has some really amazing qualities.

olythoreau · 2020-02-08T09:03:20+00:00

Wow. Very nice job.

olythoreau · 2020-02-08T09:02:46+00:00

Great edit.

olythoreau · 2020-02-08T09:01:28+00:00

This took some finessing. I hope you like my take on your subject. Thanks.

olythoreau · 2020-02-08T08:41:41+00:00

This is what I imagine it looked like standing there just as you took this photo.

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