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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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