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I am sure a lot of it is tape. IBM sells a 900 PB tape library [1]. They could store the actual phone calls on tape, and then only put the necessary metadata f
by emddudley 13y ago
I am sure a lot of it is tape. IBM sells a 900 PB tape library [1]. They could store the actual phone calls on tape, and then only put the necessary metadata for finding it on hard drives.
[1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3500/
- jpttsn 13y agoThat's good PR, too: you can tell the press that "the only thing on our hard drives is metadata" without (technically) lying.