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agreed, it would be great to know how this is running from a hardware point of view - just out of personal interest :-)
by tommoor 14y ago
agreed, it would be great to know how this is running from a hardware point of view - just out of personal interest :-)
- freehunter 14y agoSomeone further up mentioned a very plausible (in my experience) answer. Magnetic tape, using hard drive arrays as RAM. The wait time in this situation would be the time needed to complete all the current tasks waiting to be written/read in the queue before your data is written from tape to hard drive so you can access it.
- flyt 14y agoAmazon specifically said it does not use tapes.