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In order to make digital data durable, you have to store it on cassette tape. This has the same issue as physical stuff in the sense that you have to wait for i
by jart 3y ago
In order to make digital data durable, you have to store it on cassette tape. This has the same issue as physical stuff in the sense that you have to wait for it to be recalled before you can access its data, which is why tape is normally only used for backup. So they'd have to have two digital copies, paying twice the price, one for prod and one for backup. At this point when it comes to managing that, we've already exceeded the ops competencies of most tech industry teams, let alone a homeless shelter. They're really much better off just leaving the wills as they are.
- cbsmith 3y agoYeah, but even three copies of stuff digitally is cheaper to maintain because we can back the data so much denser, and replicating it to newer media is so much faster.
- space_fountain 3y agoOr you can pay aws 54 U.S. dollars a month maybe as much as 100x that and it still comes out much cheaper than a large space and staff to manage digital files. Maybe to be safe keep some magnetic tapes around too