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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next prev 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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