[Info-vax] OT: Has Ask Slashdot reached a hilarious new low-point?

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <084nf9-t2d2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> "LTFS is one of the more exciting aspects of LTO 5. Not only does it 
> deliver a very simple way for users to interact with LTO 5 based drives, 
> it also provides a platform for easier interchange of media. Now, at a 
> cost of $50 a TB, 3TBs of information can be overnighted to anywhere in 
> the world. In many cases overnight delivery of an LTO5 cartridge would be 
> faster than transferring 3TBs of data across a WAN segment. The fact that 
> the receiver only needs an LTO 5 drive attached to a computer with the 
> free LTFS driver installed, not a special application, to read that data 
> is a key advantage."
> 

Looks like things come full circle.
Two decades ago the same argument held
for 5GB 8mm cartridges vs what was called "WAN" back then.
Question now is: what does a LTO 5 drive cost?
Back then a 5GB tape drive was the same price as a 1GB disk.