From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] [OT] VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:44:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201610200744.u9K7iO4Q023131@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161020070612.GH62187@server.rulingia.com>
Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> 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
Indeed. This is well covered in https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-20 7:44 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
2016-10-20 7:44 ` arnold [this message]
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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