10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
7:37 a.m.
On 10/11/2008 14:28, Antonio Carlini wrote:
Liam Proven wrote:
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Tapes are history.
It would seem not. We have at least one tape library in the office.
It's about the size of a half-height (UK) fridge. Maybe a little deeper. But there must be people with datacentres full
of them (or, more likely their bigger, taller cousins).
We have a bigger taller cousin, two very large conjoined cabinets with a
scary robot arm, a few drives, and a shedload[1] of LTO4s. If you want
to see what the previous generation looked like, see the cover and page
10 of http://www.york.ac.uk/services/cserv/offdocs/keynotes/oct01.pdf
This is the backup for our mirrored pair of filers.
[1] This is accurate. The cabinets actually take up more space than my
wife's garden shed.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York