Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 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-square86linkfedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down13
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minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·edit-28 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-up15·8 months agoTape drives are still definitely a thing.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 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-up1·8 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.
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!