[TUHS] Station wagon bandwidth (was: VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 18:06:12 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2016-Oct-20 16:46:39 +1100, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Random832 wrote:
>>
>>> Tapes are still bigger than disks, to my understanding. The state of the
>>> art is 185 TB according to a quick google.
>>
>> As the old saying went, never underestimate the bandwidth of a
>> station-wagon full of mag tapes...
>
> Actually, I think they've been eclipsed by microSD cards.  A microSD
> card weighs ~0.25g and you can fit ~6000/l, with 256GB on each. (And,
> unlike the 185TB tapes, you can actually buy 256GB cards and readers).

Clearly TUHS has its sight set back decades, not months.  We discussed
exactly this topic less than 3 months ago, for example
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2016-July/007270.html

Greg
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