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Within Google, there used to be significant usage of tape storage until there was some major data loss incident on HDDs and they had to actually read the tapes

Within Google, there used to be significant usage of tape storage until there was some major data loss incident on HDDs and they had to actually read the tapes and someone did the math and realized it would take between weeks and months to read out all the data that they needed.

abwizz 3y ago
i guess it depends on the value of the data whether this tradeoff is worth it. was the data at google recovered or did they abandon the plan and consider it lost?
- saagarjha 3y ago
  It was recovered and it was such a pain that they deprecated tape storage entirely.