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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by fulafel on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:32AM (#26038080)
It's probably more expensive to use disk for what you'd get from a tape robot, considering the worse reliability and shelf life of disks and near-absence of hard disk loading robots on the market.
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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by 1MachineElf on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:04PM (#26038483)
A former IBMer told me a story about working at some large US government tape library with a tape robot that was essentially a powerful industrial 6-axis arm with sensors on top of treads. It did a good job shuffling tapes until someone accidentally messed up one of it's guides, after which said robot proceeded to crash through a brick wall.
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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by amelius on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:59PM (#26041757)
At least it didn't crash through a pile of tapes containing valuable data.
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