From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:37:02 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] Station wagon bandwidth (was: VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places) In-Reply-To: <20161020070612.GH62187@server.rulingia.com> References: <20161020011841.GC31179@eureka.lemis.com> <1476941060.1129501.761635617.09F711C6@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20161020070612.GH62187@server.rulingia.com> Message-ID: <20161021053702.GD31179@eureka.lemis.com> On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 18:06:12 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2016-Oct-20 16:46:39 +1100, Dave Horsfall 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 -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: