Petabyte tape cartridges are coming

Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by temp0826 on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:44AM (#26038222)

Not nearly as uncommon as you’d think. Bigcos have all sorts of data requirements. One of my first jobs involved pulling tapes from libraries and sending them off to Iron Mountain every day (and on occasion retrieving and restoring from said tapes).

On the biggest end, you have folks like AWS glacier with an absurd amount of homemade libraries (and generally no tapes stored on/off-site outside of libraries)

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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by pacaro on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:26PM (#26038743)

I've never seen compelling evidence that Glacier isn't just a different API and pricing policy on top of S3

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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by kondro on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:53PM (#26039128)

$0.99/TB replicated with Cold Storage seems pretty compelling to me.

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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by ghaff on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:12PM (#26038575)

I thought the consensus was that Glacier uses cold storage disk drives. It was speculated early on that Glacier was tape but AFAIK that was never confirmed and there's no published evidence that's actually the case.

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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by awiesenhofer on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:55PM (#26039848)

I always liked the rumors about it being huge BDXL libraries best. For example this HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647571

IIRC Facebook actually built something similar for their cold storage.

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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by ghaff on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:15PM (#26040073)

I find it a bit surprising that AWS has been able to keep this such a secret, especially given that I would have imagined that big enterprise users would presumably want to know what Glacier actually is before depending on it.

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Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming by twistedpair on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:00PM (#26043730)

NDAs are wonderful things.

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