Nomecks
@Nomecks@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
Sure, in the world of social media you can enforce whatever arbitrary terms you wish.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
Which is higher on an active disk pool with auto-healing.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
Tape suffers from bit rot too. Radiation doesn’t target just HDDs and SSDs. Look, I don’t know what to tell you. I deal with a lot of large companies and I lived through tape’s hayday. The cost to archive data on disk is not high and companies don’t have issues doing it. Having it on disk prevents bit rot, because the pools are massive and are auto-healing. Also, the only way that your archive is not going to be long term is if humaity ends. Seriously, what do you think it would take to destroy a multi-AZ glacier archive?
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
It’s almost certainly spare space from massive S3 disk pools that’s unused.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
How do I get Glacier instant retrieval from a tape?
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
Archive is whatever companies want it to be. I’ve been told anything that’s not microfilm isn’t an archive, so there you go.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree with you that tape has a different value prop, but I sell backup systems and almost nobody I sell to uses tape anymore. The truth with tape is that it’s a cheap media, but you still need to pay someone to vault it for you, it cannot be accessed easily, it makes physical moves which cause damage and tape drive tech is still one of the most complicated things in the Datacenter.
Most companies I deal with want the data to be “online” in at least some form that can be easily accessed for AI, lawsuits, new research, business continuity, etc. Tape allows none of that, and so the value of it is pretty limited. The truth these days is I can stuff a TB of data into cloud archive, with instant retrieval, for really, really cheap, with like 99.99999999999% data durability guarantees, for dollars a month.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
Not really. Disk took over when the clouds started offering cheap archiving. Tape is getting more and more rare.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 2 months ago:
Not really. Disk is king now since S3 storage took the crown when cloud services started offering cheap archiving. Anything still on disk from the 90s is some neglected archive that has been deemed by the company to have no value.
I would assume they’re finding this out now because they’re trying to feed their whole archive to the AI beast.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
A sous vide is the last device in the world you need to be smart. Set the temp, turn it on and leave it for between an hour and a week. Turn off and serve.
- Comment on RANT : The thing i miss from reddit is that when a series or movie came out or ended there would be a big discussion threads. 9 months ago:
I want about tree fiddy