Re:Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior
by rbanffy on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:37PM
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That's a good point - there is no such thing as a tape-only data storage system - you'll need RAM, flash, and HDDs to help ingest large quantities of data so that tape drives can have data ready to write.
Most of the time the right answer is most of the storage in tape, with a couple of petabytes of disk in front of it to deal with hot data. Even in that circumstance you have to carefully manage the disk storage and filesystem or you wind up with client devices too new to access the supported fs version, another problem that basically does not exist with tape.