tape backup drives?

[Wasabisam]

first what's a petabyte(as i am too lazy to google, about to pass out from the tylenol)

A petabyte is equal to 1,024 terabytes. Petabyte is abbreviated as PB.

Sam

[Greco101]

lol, I can't get over how much storage that is... 1000......terabytes.
1,000,000 Megabytes...
1,000,000,000 Kilobytes...
1,000,000,000,000 Bytes...
4,000,000,000,000 Nibbles
8,000,000,000,000 Bits

I could never imagine more than that although 20 years from now will probably be in the newest iPod lol.

[SgtM]

first what's a petabyte(as i am too lazy to google, about to pass out from the tylenol), also i heard that big business's used silo's for backing up data, do they do that still?

Our setup at work looks similar to this. IBM 3494 Robotic Tape library

[Dilphat]

yeah sgtm that thing, when I was talking about the silo's I meant that thing. where it has a robotic arm and it changes tape drives.

[calumc]

I wonder how long it would take me to fill that with pirated movies? :p

[Greco101]

I wonder how long it would take me to fill that with pirated movies? :p

I don't think we're allowed to talk about that here.

[Airbozo]

One cool thing about one of the Tape libraries I used to work on (storage tek timberwolf 9740), is that it not only has a bar code reader to inventory and keep track of the tapes, it also had a regular camera that would _slowly_ scan the bottom of the cabinet after you closed the door to make sure there were no foreign objects left behind (like a screwdriver or a tape that fell out of a slot) before it went into high speed mode. And high speed mode is quite impressive! Many years ago PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric), in SF had 3 silos named Huey Dewy and Louie, that were large enough for several people to walk into _with_ the robotic arm. Tape technology is fun stuff. This is the first large tape unit that I worked on;

[Quakken]

Scalability is much better with tape libraries. One library for quadrillions of bytes. Quadrillions.

i just nerdgasmed a little bit saying that.