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It's probably more expensive to use disk for what you'd get from a tape robot, considering the worse reliability and shelf life of disks and near-absence of har
by fulafel 6y ago
It's probably more expensive to use disk for what you'd get from a tape robot, considering the worse reliability and shelf life of disks and near-absence of hard disk loading robots on the market.
- 1MachineElf 6y agoA former IBMer told me a story about working at some large US government tape library with a tape robot that was essentially a powerful industrial 6-axis arm with sensors on top of treads. It did a good job shuffling tapes until someone accidentally messed up one of it's guides, after which said robot proceeded to crash through a brick wall.
- amelius 6y agoAt least it didn't crash through a pile of tapes containing valuable data.