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Data centres rate hard disk lives at only two years
On 2018-03-25 09:59:07 +0000, RichA said:
Doesn't surprise me. https://phys.org/news/2018-03-golden...k-storage.html The problem with this is of the VHS syndrome kind: While the tapes might be good players can be hard to find, for a reasonable price... -- teleportation kills |
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Data centres rate hard disk lives at only two years
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RichA wrote: Sad, because VHS tapes last FAR longer than hard drives. no they very definitely don't. |
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Data centres rate hard disk lives at only two years
On 2018-03-25 21:12:33 +0000, RichA said:
On Sunday, 25 March 2018 08:20:29 UTC-4, android wrote: On 2018-03-25 09:59:07 +0000, RichA said: Doesn't surprise me. https://phys.org/news/2018-03-golden...k-storage.html The problem with this is of the VHS syndrome kind: While the tapes might be good players can be hard to find, for a reasonable price... -- teleportation kills Side issue; Sad, because VHS tapes last FAR longer than hard drives. I've seen tapes from the mid-1980's play well. They can also (if you don't want to access it at extreme speed) hold about 2G of data. I thought that Panasonic were to stay in VHS forever and that EP (3x) was nearly as good as the LP (2x) one... ;-ppp -- teleportation kills |
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Data centres rate hard disk lives at only two years
On 2018-03-25 21:12:33 +0000, RichA said:
On Sunday, 25 March 2018 08:20:29 UTC-4, android wrote: On 2018-03-25 09:59:07 +0000, RichA said: Doesn't surprise me. https://phys.org/news/2018-03-golden...k-storage.html The problem with this is of the VHS syndrome kind: While the tapes might be good players can be hard to find, for a reasonable price... -- teleportation kills Side issue; Sad, because VHS tapes last FAR longer than hard drives. I've seen tapes from the mid-1980's play well. They can also (if you don't want to access it at extreme speed) hold about 2G of data. I thought that Panasonic were to stay in VHS forever and that the EP (3x) mode was nearly as good as the LP (2x) one... ;-ppp -- teleportation kills |
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