I dont delete anything . Never have . Watching your anemic offense helped me get over it . <| sep |> Just for good measure , here ' s some info about archiving finished projects for a small vfx mograph studio . I also wrote this up for my friend who runs a small vfx mograph studio . LTO tape is data tape . There 7 generations of LTO currently . LTO 7 was just released and one LTO 7 tape can hold 6 TB to 15 TB depending on how much the data can be compressed . I ' d just assume no compression , so one tape can hold 6 TB . You can get an LTO 7 tape right now for $ 131 lto 7 tapeultrium . aspBut LTO 7 is new , so it is expensive . An LTO 6 tape can hold 3 TB minimum and only costs $ 22 . lto 6 tapeultriumtapes . aspSo I ' d say go with an LTO 6 drive for archiving . A quick note about archiving vs backups Archiving is when you finish a job and want to get it off your server and put it in storage . Backups are when you want to back up your server this could be in the middle of a job . For a rich media company , like a production company , LTO makes a lot of sense for archiving . It ' s a little more difficult to use it for backing up your server . So I ' d just recommend it for archiving at this point for your company . If you just want to use LTO tape as a way to archive finished projects , then have a look at BRU Producer ' s Edition PE software . It ' s $ 500 . BRU PE is Mac only . p e a r c h i v a l a n d c lientdeliverablessoftware . htmlThis company also sells their software as a package with an LTO tape drive that connects via Thunderbolt to a mac . They also sell a model that connects via miniSAS which you can add to a computer with a SAS PCIe card . 6 Model # 80572 TB $ 4699 USD SPECIAL SAVINGS direct order from TOLIS pricing $ 4199 USDYou don ' t have to buy the LTO drive from Tolis group though . Here ' s some other optionsyou ' ll need a PCIe SAS card to work with this first oneREGoverlandovlto 101007 overlandexternaltape . htmlthis one works with T h u n d e r b o l tREGmlogicmtapetbmtapelto 6 tapedrive . htmlIf you ' re looking for windows LTO archiving software , let me know . But I ' ve heard BRU PE is the easiest most affordable for archiving .