HN
Hacker News
Top
New
Best
Ask
Show
Jobs
Comment by petemc_ | Hacker News Reader
Parent
Full thread
petemc_
·
Yes. Tapes and tape drives are expensive and awkward to use.
View on HN
hrrsn
·
You also have to store them, test them and then find them when a customer wants their data. With drives in a pod they're always online and in a RAID so when a drive dies they can be alerted quickly and customers can access data essentially 24/7.
Reply on news.ycombinator.com