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If the tape was twice as long, it could hold 1.16 petabytes. That would have been a more interesting headline.
by anonu 6y ago
If the tape was twice as long, it could hold 1.16 petabytes. That would have been a more interesting headline.
- w0mbat 6y agoMy reaction was that any kind of tape can hold 580 Terabytes if it's long enough.
- rahimnathwani 6y agoHow long would the tape from an audio (compact) cassette need to be, to hold 580TB? How thick would that tape need to be to allow the motorized spool to pull the tape from the other (passive) spool? Imagine you were to make an assembly that could hold two spools of this tape, how large would it be? It might be hard to fit it through the door of your server room. And it might not even fit in the van that carries away your off-site backups :)
- fernly 6y agoYeah! Somehow my brain started to channel Shakespeare and say "Why, so can I, and so can any man, be the tape but long enough!" (Then I had to look it up. Henry IV Part I, Act III, Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep; Hotspur: Why so can I, and so can any man, but will they come when you do call them?)
- galkk 6y agoMost likely there are standard sizes of containers.