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Re:Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL? by craigyk on Friday April 25, 2014 @04:12PM (#7648777)
Which is why I would build a HD robot that doesn't manipulate the disks, but the connector.
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Re:Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL? by simonster on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:34PM (#7649483)
You don't even need a robot. The electronics needed to digitally "switch" which disk is connected to the server would be extremely inexpensive. I'm not sure why the original article even considers the idea of a disk drive robot.
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Re:Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL? by KaiserPro on Saturday April 26, 2014 @06:30AM (#7650939)
the connectors are only rated for <1000 insertions. Tape is where its at.

The best part about a robot is that you can take things out of a library and move them to a somewhere without power or epic cooling.

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