I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
I was recently doing a tour of CERN in Geneva, and they actually still store data on tape because of its cost and reliability over hard drives!
Apparently tape is nowhere near the magnetic density limit that hard drives are hitting, so tape is just going to continue to improve in future