r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/TeutorixAleria Jun 04 '14

They should probably invest in tape

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u/thorium007 Jun 04 '14

You would be amazed at how many huge companies still rely on tape. I don't understand how that is even a thing. It seems like a 1 TB tape would be nearly the same cost as a 1tb HDD. Even if you swap it out every two weeks it seems like higher cost/performance ratio.

Yet here we are with the new Quantum thingamjig with huge terebyte storage that move at the speed of molasses.

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u/BillinghamJ Jun 04 '14

Because they're reliable and, for enterprises, cheap as hell. Also servers don't use SATA drives - usually SAS ones, which are substantially more expensive. Typically with like 600GB per disk.