“The Department of Government Efficiency, Musk’s vehicle. made news by “discovering” the General Services Administration uses tapes, and plans to save $1M by switching to something else (disks, or cloud-based storage).”
“The Department of Government Efficiency, Musk’s vehicle. made news by “discovering” the General Services Administration uses tapes, and plans to save $1M by switching to something else (disks, or cloud-based storage).”
It’s not even that it’s low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it’s been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.
It’s the pig-ignorant newbies thinking “hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech”. Hard drives are also 1970s tech.
They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They’re not well suited for situations where you can’t guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.
But for some situations, it’s indispensable.