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

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:22:59 +0200, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:

> Drive aside :
> 
> (cost for a 3TB normal hd + cheap usb3 / esata box )  -  cost for a
> single lto-5 tape +
> number of total rewrites of the disk vs limited rewrites of the tape.
> 
> If it's purely to move data around because it's quicker than using a
> wan, the hd would likely win as operating cost, imo
> 
> Anyway I remember that a lot of years ago, middle 90' at most, there was
> some program to use a dat as a device to be accessed as an hd. I should
> likely still have it somewhere...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtape

But if you ever used DECtape in its TU58 incarnation, you will know how 
painfully slow it could be.

P.S. You are top posting.  The convention in this news group is to use 
bottom posting.

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Paul Sture