Tape - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 02:34:12 am
content: Q

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 03:02:34 am
content: MADNESS!!! (Said in a British accent whilst shaking fists at the sky)hahahaha..But seriously, somebody CC tis to the NSA.. They may want in! Who needs that much storage?

author: liquibyte
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 03:13:01 am
content: Quote from: calexanian on May 06, 2014, 03:02:34 amThe NSA.

author: nanofrog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 04:35:14 am
content: Don't forget banks... they need to know where they've put all that money.

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 06:46:08 am
content: Quote from: GEuser on May 06, 2014, 02:34:12 amJust imagine that tape cartridge fail, tape cuts or gets crimped to mess... Thats a lot of data no longer accessible...

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 06:55:45 am
content: Quote from: lapm on May 06, 2014, 06:46:08 amHowever it will survive if dropped, unlike HDD. Also you will loose only small portion of data, not all like if HDD craps out.

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 07:37:22 am
content: Quote from: nanofrog on May 06, 2014, 04:35:14 am+1, usually in financial industries are heavily regulated when it comes to data retention period, some countries are even have > 10 years policy on "ANY" financial transactions done by financial institutions for auditing & traceability purposes.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 06:55:14 pm
content: You could use it for uncompressed HD video.

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 07:14:54 pm
content: Holy s**t.I have some 100/200gb tapes for my dell powervault (and some 200/400gb ones), but 185 terabytes?That's insane.I still need to get the stuff to connect it to a computer and see if there is data on the tapes.video for those interested:I wonder if the internal workings have changed much.

author: ajb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2014, 10:01:59 pm
content: Quote from: Hero999 on May 06, 2014, 06:55:14 pmReminds me of a conversation with a production person on a TV shoot I worked on a while ago. Each of the DV tapes they used cost about twenty bucks, he said. The footageonthe tape, though, cost a day's pay for about a dozen specially-skilled professionals, a day's rental for a load of A/V and lighting gear, all of the time & material I'd put into my project, a day of the cast's time (priceless!), and breakfast & lunch for a dozen people--altogether many tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention the incalculable opportunity costs.And of course it's fresh out of the camera, so there are NO backups yet. Needless to say they handled those tapes very carefully!

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2014, 12:39:36 am
content: Quote from: XOIIO on May 06, 2014, 07:14:54 pmI have an Adaptec PCI express SCSI card that I keep around, I even have the adapter cables for old SCSI external Centronics connectors.

author: Mr Smiley
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2014, 01:35:49 am
content: Only last week, went to a car boot event, there was one guy shouting, any three items for a quid (£1), had a quick noisy, and bugger me walked away with three dds4 tape drives fora quid

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2014, 02:12:38 am
content: For the Americans, what is "a quid?" Is it like the British "one buck?"

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2014, 02:23:10 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 07, 2014, 02:12:38 amCanadian, but yup, Basically just assume it's around two bucks for us due to conversion.

author: TVman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2014, 02:38:28 am
content: This is so COOL!And I thought 1TB was a lot!This gets.

author: electrolux
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 08, 2014, 04:15:26 pm
content: It will cost a million pounds.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2014, 02:28:44 am
content: Quote from: electrolux on May 08, 2014, 04:15:26 pmWell, it will cost a lot. Since the price will be determined by market positioning analysis, rather than anything to do with actual production costs and fair profit.But more importantly, what's the bet the hardware will be poisoned with DRM controls? Sony isn't going to make a 185TB tape drive that can be used to store very large numbers of ripped digital movies, etc.Users will be lucky if the tape system doesn't try to Root their computers. (Reference to past shady hijinx by Sony.)

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2014, 08:38:27 am
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on May 09, 2014, 02:28:44 amthat got me curious and I found this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandalholy crap.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2014, 06:30:45 pm
content: That is why I had a simple text file with the name $$Syscanary on my desktop for many years. Did not worry me on my other computer, as there the installer was very much not likely to ever run on a Redhat system.

author: scientist
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2014, 08:55:30 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on May 09, 2014, 02:28:44 amYou don't know that.