Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-up1189arrow-down14
arrow-up1185arrow-down1external-link'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.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·edit-22 months 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-squareearphone843@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoTape drives are still definitely a thing.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoIf you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it’s very affordable €/TB
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIt’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.
minus-squareMangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoTapes are still sold in pretty high densities, don’t have to wait!
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.
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
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!