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Cheap and very very reliable archival storage (essentially no failure modes other than the magnetic media itself), weight and volume wise pretty much still the
by dogma1138 2y ago
Cheap and very very reliable archival storage (essentially no failure modes other than the magnetic media itself), weight and volume wise pretty much still the best density you can get 18TB (up to 45 with compression) in a small 200g package is hard to beat when you need to move peta bytes around.
Also tape is much cheaper to produce than platters especially at large volumes.
- nshkrdotcom 2y agoHow does such tape compare to 2" and 1/2" analogue reel to reel tape, in terms of production costs? A new reel of Ampex 2" tape is $375.00 currently: https://vintageking.com/atr-magnetics-studio-master-tape-blue-2 https://vintageking.com/atr-magnetics-studio-master-tape-blu...
- dogma1138 2y agoI don’t know but over the counter direct purchase single unit LTO 9 tapes are about £70-80 each in the UK for 18TB, in large volumes they are much cheaper, I’ve seen quotes in the £30 per tape and that wasn’t at a cloud provider or even massive enterprise scale or anywhere close to that.
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