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Remember the times when the biggest disks were up to ~100GB and LTO tape could store 1.6TB (compressed, 800GB uncompressed)? That's 8 biggest hdds. And now? We
by Roark66 3y ago
Remember the times when the biggest disks were up to ~100GB and LTO tape could store 1.6TB (compressed, 800GB uncompressed)? That's 8 biggest hdds. And now? We have spinning hdds bigger than the biggest lto standard. Where is my 160TB lto tape?
It is sad there is no removable media other than maybe these few TB portable ssds that can be used for archival purposes. I _still_ have my commodore 64 datasette tapes as well as floppies from the start of the pc era(for me).
Even for the prosumer there were iomega drives. Now, one is supposed to use (and trust in) the cloud. Bonkers.
- ksec 3y ago>Where is my 160TB lto tape? Exactly! Or where is the affordable 1-5 TB Tape?! And worst of all SSD is not reliable. And apart from an over supply market where prices have fallen to record low we are at right now. NAND cost wont be dropping much in the near future. Apart from big Enterprise, most smaller shops dont know and cant afford to do storage / backups.