11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
2:24 p.m.
I guess I was being too clever with that post. What I
trying to express
was my dislike of magnetic tape and floppies. Both require the media to
be in contact with the head to work. Magnetic and optical rigid disks do
not.
I'm not arguing for hundreds of TB of tape, or against using sata
drives, here, but:
If the wear of validating your media is killing your media, you've got a
media refresh problem. You're supposed to be migrating the stuff
forward onto newer media every ~five or so years anyway, so that you
don't get bit rot, continue to have access to working drives, etc.
De