30 Jan
2009
30 Jan
'09
5:40 a.m.
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Holger Veit wrote:
3. Long time, three new generations of employees
later, someone finds
the locker again, regards it interesting for archival of own stuff,
and sees big old black squares and supposedly worn-out brown adhesive
tape on large reels. He has no knowledge what this has been once,
does not even know what floppies are at all, leave alone 8" ones, and
for reel tapes noone even has a reader anymore in the close
environment. Some binders read 1973, long before he was born. Surely
it is not for Wintel systems.
This is why I tend to prefer the people who I work with (in academia).
They don't seem to be as rash and thoughtless about their decisions as
a lot of people in the corporate world, who just seem to be interested
in how big their paycheck is. (I said "some", not "all", so it's
not
necessary to reply to say how this profile doesn't fit $reader.)
Storage on corporate file servers isn't cheap. You
don't put 10
1TB-USB drives at $100 each together and then have a serious and
reliable corporate storage system, even if such USB-SANs exist.
But, you can fit the contents of a huge number of 6250bpi 9-track tapes
onto a "small" 73GB SCSI drive; around 500 full tapes. You can fit
even more 8" floppies in the same space. At what we spend for our
persistent, backed up storage at work, 73GB would be less than $100
worth of storage ($1000/TB is the typical guideline right now).
Pat
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