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From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] [OT] VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:06:12 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020070612.GH62187@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1610201641240.52197@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On 2016-Oct-20 16:46:39 +1100, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Random832 wrote:
>
>> Tapes are still bigger than disks, to my understanding. The state of the 
>> art is 185 TB according to a quick google.
>
>As the old saying went, never underestimate the bandwidth of a 
>station-wagon full of mag tapes...

Actually, I think they've been eclipsed by microSD cards.  A microSD
card weighs ~0.25g and you can fit ~6000/l, with 256GB on each. (And,
unlike the 185TB tapes, you can actually buy 256GB cards and readers).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-18 23:05 Dave Horsfall
2016-10-19  3:35 ` Andy Kosela
2016-10-19 11:49   ` Dan Cross
2016-10-20  1:18     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-10-20  5:24       ` Random832
2016-10-20  5:46         ` Dave Horsfall
2016-10-20  6:30           ` Cory Smelosky
2016-10-20  7:06           ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2016-10-20  7:44             ` arnold
2016-10-21  5:37             ` [TUHS] Station wagon bandwidth (was: VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-10-20 13:42 [TUHS] [OT] VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places Noel Chiappa

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