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Crazy robots? Isn't Glacier just tape storage? Big companies use regular robots for that.
by sukilot 12y ago
Crazy robots? Isn't Glacier just tape storage? Big companies use regular robots for that.
- fragmede 12y agoAmazon hasn't publicly stated what technology Glacier is based on. It's been speculated that instead of throwing out previous generation AWS hardware, they're simply repurposing then into cheap storage nodes for Glacier.
- EwanToo 12y agoI can well imagine it started that way, but the density of tape over disk makes it seem likely to me that by now they're on custom versions of Spectra tape libraries, which pretty much fits into the "Try selling it, if it sells, make something cheap to run it" philosophy.