Sunshine (she/her) to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 12 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-up1187arrow-down14
arrow-up1183arrow-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) to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 12 days agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-square@solrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish19•edit-212 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-square@earphone843@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish18•12 days agoTape drives are still definitely a thing.
minus-square@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish5•12 days agoIf you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it’s very affordable €/TB
minus-square@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•12 days agoIt’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.
minus-square@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish1•12 days 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!