• @[email protected]
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    18 days ago

    Haven’t they said that about magnetic tape as well?

    Some 30 years ago?

    Isn’t magnetic tape still around? Isn’t even IBM one of the major vendors?

    • @[email protected]
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      58 days ago

      Anyone who has said that doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Magnetic tape is unparalleled for long-term/archival storage.

      This is completely different. For active storage, solid-state has been much better than spinning rust for a long time, it’s just been drastically more expensive. What’s being argued here is that it’s not performant and while it might be more expensive initially, it’s less expensive to run and maintain.

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          38 days ago

          Hard drives have longer shelf life than unpowered SSD. HDD are a good middle ground between SSD speeds, tape drive stability, and price they won’t go anywhere. The data world exists in tiers

        • Echo Dot
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          08 days ago

          Right up until an EMP wipes out all our data. I still maintain that we should be storing all our data on vinyl, doing it physically is the only guarantee.