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I may be misremembering this, but seeing all these Margaret #thatcher posts on my feed (yesterday was the anniversary of her death), reminds me of an old Virus/Worm for Microsoft Word, that randomly replaced words in documents with the word 'Thatcher'.

Googling can't seem to help me find the find the details, so maybe I dreamed it? (Pretty sure I didn't).

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@alterelefant @Heidi As of now, we can see stuff like the #ExaDrive, a 100TB 3,5" SSD for #online - #archival storage.

  • As #Helium-filled #SMR-#HDD|s struggle to meet the demand for storage at an acceptable thermal & power envelope and price, #SSD|s will inevitable take over as not only the more robust media but also cheaper, more dense and easier to use.

As for the #NeoFloppy that thing could be made - I'm just not good enough layouting PCBs with the precision needed for #PCIe signalling...

  • Needless to say if constant write speed and lifetime in writes is secondary, then a stack of cheap #SATA-SSDs already beats #LTO-9 tapes unless you need to backup literal #Petabytes and need the fancy features like #WORM media.

That being said, it's inevitable that even WORM as a feature may be copied over.

  • In fact #ZFS can already offer many features of #LTFS, including read-only snapshots and thus append-only #archives.

Until there are #COTS solutions tho, LTO #Tape and other options will OFC remain dominant and relevant.

  • Still I'd happily see storage vendors take up the NeoFloppy and build something off it.
GitHubGitHub - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy: A new storage media format using modern interfaces.A new storage media format using modern interfaces. - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy