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minus-squarekeepcarrot [she/her]hexbear8·7 months agoReminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating link
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.dehexbear11·7 months ago"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." – Andrew Tanenbaum linkfedilink
minus-squarekeepcarrot [she/her]hexbear1·7 months agoMy dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember link
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.dehexbear1·7 months agoTapes hold a lot more now. LTO-9 tapes hold 18 TB and IBM 3592 Gen 6 tapes hold 50 TB. linkfedilink
Reminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." – Andrew Tanenbaum
My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember
Tapes hold a lot more now. LTO-9 tapes hold 18 TB and IBM 3592 Gen 6 tapes hold 50 TB.