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At scale, tape still has the lowest cost per byte of any storage medium.
by jl6 11y ago
At scale, tape still has the lowest cost per byte of any storage medium.
- acdha 11y agoIt's true for sufficiently large values of “at scale” but tape has uniquely high overhead costs – hardware, software, staffing – which have to be balanced out by those lower storage costs. HDD/SSD costs have been declining at a much faster rate so we're already at the point where only the largest storage consumers are going to reach the point where they see a return from the initial investment in tape.