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Did they put it on the blockchain
they uploaded it to google drive and then forgot the password
The team of tape archivists at my office will be glad to hear that they can be replaced by a USB HDD.
You joke but there’s a non insignificant chance some Management sees this and orders the same thing to be done
Magnetic tapes are modern ‘permanent’ digital storage - they’re often used for long term archiving and backups. After decades of development and refinement it’s extremely reliable and relatively inexpensive. So I very much doubt that there will actually be long term savings. But we all know that’s not really the point of Doge so I guess who cares.
I was gonna say this, I’ve set up tape archiving system for companies in the past, they’re very cheap, stable, and easy to maintain. They absolutely are the right, modern choice for a lot of long-term data archival use cases.
I’m guessing ‘permanent modern digital record’ means they uploaded it all into the cloud, where they will have to change it regularly due to updates, frequently lose access to it all after a datacentre outage, and soon get price gouged so they’re paying far, far more.
hold on i thought old fashion tape drives were in fact still very reliable and have insanely high capacity for data you don’t need to access much or quickly?
You would be correct
