From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Station wagon bandwidth (was: VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:37:02 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161021053702.GD31179@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161020070612.GH62187@server.rulingia.com>
On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 18:06:12 +1100, Peter Jeremy 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).
Clearly TUHS has its sight set back decades, not months. We discussed
exactly this topic less than 3 months ago, for example
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-July/007270.html
Greg
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-18 23:05 [TUHS] [OT] VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places 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
2016-10-21 5:37 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
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