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		api 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platte... “Disk is the new tape” has been true for a while and will probably stay true. SSD also has longer term data loss issues when unpowered. Magnetic disk is still better in that respect too.

immibis 17 days ago [–]

Tape is still half the cost per TB, but you have to be storing at least several hundred TBs to break even with the cost of a single tape drive. For two it's certainly well over a petabyte.

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