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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•edit-22 months agoHdds were a fad, I’m waiting for the return of tape drives. 500TB on a $20 cartridge and I can live with the 2 minute seek time.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•2 months agoTape drives are still definitely a thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoIf you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it’s very affordable €/TB
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoIt’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoTapes are still sold in pretty high densities, don’t have to wait!
Hdds were a fad, I’m waiting for the return of tape drives. 500TB on a $20 cartridge and I can live with the 2 minute seek time.
Tape drives are still definitely a thing.
If you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it’s very affordable €/TB
It’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.
Tapes are still sold in pretty high densities, don’t have to wait!