Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Date: 5 May 2014 11:44:05 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hdsVg33qUSST+hBjLqcD2AlPyCK99Q8q9tQkOfWtZfZj6yK6fq Cancel-Lock: sha1:+2w9uerdn0zU5O6N9zLqtn0X4AY= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2633 On 2014-05-05, RS Wood wrote: > On 2014-05-05, Huge wrote: >> On 2014-05-04, RS Wood wrote: >> >>> that kind of density, one small data cartridge can hold a monumental 185TB of >>> data, >> >> Kewl. Just think how much data you can lose at one go. >> > > Isn't that the case for any storage technology though? Burn to CDs - > disks degrade; you lose data. Offload to a NAS - even with a fancy RAID > system, what if the device catches fire? Lose a terabyte. Etc. Tapes are much less reliable than any other storage medium I've ever come across. They're also slow. Their one advantage is cheapness. I'd certainly never rely on a single tape to back anything up. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 52nd day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”