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'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises (www.techradar.com)
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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

It's not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tape drives are still definitely a thing.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

If you exclude the introductory price of the drive and needing specialized software to read/write to it it's very affordable €/TB

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

Tapes are still sold in pretty high densities, don't have to wait!