Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

Posted May 13, 2015 22:26 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel by dlang
Parent article: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

> tape drives still have a better cost profile when dealing with very large data volumes

Sorta, sometimes, and not really.. depending on your use case.

If you actually want to be able to access to your data in any sort of reasonable time frame then throwing the cheapest servers possible stuff full of 3.5 inch 7200rpm drives is far far better option. For money, time, and sanity. :)