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minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoI wonder if we put serious effort into it how many GB we could fit on 3.5" media
minus-squareAustralianSimon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-222 hours agoLet’s see… 1.44MB per floppy… carry the two…uhhh 0.14% of a GB, sir.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoSuper disc was the same size package and stored 12 0 MB in the US and 240 MB a few years later abroad. But this is all around 1996.
minus-squareAustralianSimon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoThat’s a lot of low res nudie pics.
minus-squareabigscaryhobo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 hours agoSome of the biggest archives around are on magnetic tape if I remember right.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoGod, I used to manage a data center that had a 128 tape Dell library, If I had that library today and a couple of LTO 9s in it… I don’t know what I’d do with 2.3 petabytes, and the time from request to load would be abhorrent But damn it, I would do something cool
I wonder if we put serious effort into it how many GB we could fit on 3.5" media
Let’s see… 1.44MB per floppy… carry the two…uhhh 0.14% of a GB, sir.
Super disc was the same size package and stored 12 0 MB in the US and 240 MB a few years later abroad. But this is all around 1996.
That’s a lot of low res nudie pics.
Some of the biggest archives around are on magnetic tape if I remember right.
God, I used to manage a data center that had a 128 tape Dell library, If I had that library today and a couple of LTO 9s in it…
I don’t know what I’d do with 2.3 petabytes, and the time from request to load would be abhorrent But damn it, I would do something cool