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I find it very surprising that yearly volume is only 128EB, because I know one company that consumes a non-trivial percentage of that.
by notacoward 3y ago
I find it very surprising that yearly volume is only 128EB, because I know one company that consumes a non-trivial percentage of that.
- wombatpm 3y ago128EB of which only a tiny fraction is utilized. I imagine most tapes only get written to multiple times, but never read from. We’re supposed to restore from backup periodically to ensure the process is working but I’ve never seen EVERY backup being tested
- ithkuil 3y agoThat company buys new tapes every year at a rate that is a non-trivial percentage of that ? Or does it rotate the tapes?
- codemac 3y agoThis is because tape as a percentage of the DC storage market is dwindling. There are single hyperscalars that buy more than this much capacity in HDD in a single quarter.