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

[MG]

On 13-8-2012 14:08, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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.

Back when?  Disks were a lot faster than (the remotely
affordable) tapes and disks were also a more expensive,
as far as I can recall.  Since the 'Thailand floods' the
prices of disks spiked and they still haven't dropped, I
have noticed.  (A convenient excuse to keep the prices
artificially high?)  So, the price of a LTO-5 data cart-
ridge and an equally sized SATA (I don't even think that
SAS scales up to LTO capacities, yet) will cost close to
that.

LTO is one of the fastest tape standards ever conceived,
in absolute speed but also relative to the existing disk
technologies.

  - MG