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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." – Andrew Tanenbaum

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tapes hold a lot more now. LTO-9 tapes hold 18 TB and IBM 3592 Gen 6 tapes hold 50 TB.