Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterpriseswww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down14
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minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·edit-27 days agoHdds were a fad, I’m waiting for the return of tape drives. 500TB on a $20 cartridge and I can live with the 2 minute seek time.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoIt’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.
minus-squareMangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoTapes are still sold in pretty high densities, don’t have to wait!
minus-squareearphone843@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·7 days agoTape drives are still definitely a thing.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoIf you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it’s very affordable €/TB
Hdds were a fad, I’m waiting for the return of tape drives. 500TB on a $20 cartridge and I can live with the 2 minute seek time.
It’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.
Tapes are still sold in pretty high densities, don’t have to wait!
Tape drives are still definitely a thing.
If you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it’s very affordable €/TB