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> Manual labour. Big cloud providers have disk replacement robots, so it's not unfeasible for robots to perform the "unplug and store the HDD somewhere". But

by sofixa 3y ago

> Manual labour. Big cloud providers have disk replacement robots, so it's not unfeasible for robots to perform the "unplug and store the HDD somewhere". But another advantage tape has is durability.

jeffbee 3y ago
Who actually has those?
- jandrese 3y ago
  Last time I saw one of those was back when AOL was a big shot ISP. They had to buy high power SGI systems to feed the things because nothing else had the bus bandwidth to support one. I was told that the full rack sized SGI system (Origin 2000) was the cheapest part of the entire rig.
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throw0101a 3y ago
> Big cloud providers have disk replacement robots […] [citation needed]
- voxadam 3y ago
  https://twitter.com/alibaba_cloud/status/1326078390105825281 https://twitter.com/alibaba_cloud/status/1326078390105825281 I have no idea if anything like this is actually in use, I have my doubts. Also, a system like this probably isn't terribly useful, a Cartesian gantry robot would be much faster and way more robust than an articulated arm strapped to a mobile robot platform.