Re:Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to pr...
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:15AM
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> 1,000,000 passes on any area of tape, equates to over 20,000 end to end passes
What in the world does that first number mean?
My best guess is that it's some nonsense math based on the fact that the tape head contacts 32 tracks at once. So writing a full tape is 1 "full pass", which equals 208 "end to end passes" as the tape feeds back and forth, which equals 6656 """passes on any area""".
What in the world does that first number mean?
My best guess is that it's some nonsense math based on the fact that the tape head contacts 32 tracks at once. So writing a full tape is 1 "full pass", which equals 208 "end to end passes" as the tape feeds back and forth, which equals 6656 """passes on any area""".