No one really knows, and Amazon won’t say. There’s speculation it’s tape, low-rpm drives connected to custom logic boards, Blu ray, etc.
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justinthegeek@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days agoS3 archive is on glacier which is all tape
breakingcups@lemmy.world 6 days ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s almost certainly tape, a single LTO9 cartridge can hold 18TBs of data for cheap compared to the equivalent drive.
Blu-ray is unlikely, only quad layer BR have a decent capacity at 125GB each and quality ones are hard to find these days. Sony has even stopped making their blu ray based Optical Disk Archival system thing.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
It’s almost certainly spare space from massive S3 disk pools that’s unused.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
How do I get Glacier instant retrieval from a tape?