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this technology suffers from high latency (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." – Andrew Tanenbaum

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Tapes hold a lot more now. LTO-9 tapes hold 18 TB and IBM 3592 Gen 6 tapes hold 50 TB.