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When I was working in vfx we employed a guy who's sole job was to fly back and forth from LA to Melbourne with pelican cases full of hard drives. It was faster and more secure since we were working on air gapped networks.
That feels like a dream job for a temporary amount of time. And very effective too. I assume the VFX studio is in Melbourne?
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Yeah what does a new HD cost? Like £100 max for a big high quality one? Compared to buying a £5k tape drive and expensive tapes... yeah that's basically zero.
You miss the point - consumer tape drives won't cost 5k, just like consumer HDD's are cheaper than enterprise HDD's.
Aw, c'mon chaps! Can we just admire the tech for a second? > Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch... > When tape is being read it is streamed over the head at a speed of about 15 km/h and with our new servo technologies we are still able to position the tape head with an accuracy that is about 1.5 times the width of a DNA molecule.
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That feels like a dream job for a temporary amount of time. And very effective too. I assume the VFX studio is in Melbourne?
Only if it was before American TSA which sounds like it was. Now flying that much must suck cuz murcia. And you know real threats combined with gov agencies flailing about to pretend they are doing something about it. (Most of the stuff that worked had nothing to do with TSA adopted tech).
Your post is ill informed FUD.
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Loveliest part was the part right before that: “Just let me geek out for a second” Absolutely IBM storage person, the more geeking out the better!
"Let me just surveillance out for a second" Guess where this will have the biggest impact in the next decade - the long term storage of billions of personally invading surveillance data points forever... Seriously, this tech will be abused. Against everyone. Facial recognition much? Zoom data? TikTok Data in a very compact physical form-factor? Utah and China will LOVE this!
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Transport security wasn't as big a concern as consistent delivery. Network volitility is a huge problem when transferring huge files.
Is the internet in Australia really less reliable than airline on-time performance?
Checksums will identify something went wrong, and then you need to redownload the file to a quarantine network and scan it. Takes time.
Much easier to go from trusted source to trusted source and verify the files on drive prior to shipping.
Amazon just released a device (forget the name) for exactly the same use case. We developed it in house.
Not to mention most major studios will contractually prevent you from exposing anything to the web.
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> found a stack of MiniDV tapes from about 15 years ago ... I wanted to preserve them Here's where I raise my hand and ask "Why?" They've been sitting in a box for 15 years. You never watched them, you never even thought about them. Why preserve them? It's why I stopped taking pictures and videos of things. I never watched them again. It's all just a lot of waste motion over some dream that someday we'll find value i…
Just because you don't doesn't mean other people don't. May as well condemn someone for following a sport you don't like.
Wait until you have to clean out a parent's house with a rooms full of stuff saved because they thought the grandkids might find it interesting. Here's the reality: they don't. My mother saved boxes and boxes and boxes of photos. None of them ever sorted, or put in albums. Just thrown in boxes. Saved for decades. Was it hard to throw them away? Yes, a little. There were a lot of moments of my childhood there. But if I asked myself honestly, was I going to do anything with them other than put them on a shelf at my house? The answer was no. I'd advise sparing your kids that burden.
A friend of my mother's had saved every canceled check she ever wrote. Boxes of them, because she thought her kids or grandkids might be interested in them some day. Their reaction was likely: What's a check?
If you really cherish something, and it regularly brings happiness to your life, by all means save it. But do it for yourself, not for what you think your descendants will find interesting. And if it's been in a closet for 5 years, ask yourself why you are keeping it.
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"Let me just surveillance out for a second" Guess where this will have the biggest impact in the next decade - the long term storage of billions of personally invading surveillance data points forever... Seriously, this tech will be abused. Against everyone. Facial recognition much? Zoom data? TikTok Data in a very compact physical form-factor? Utah and China will LOVE this!
Can someone explain the Utah reference?
> The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is classified. The National Security Agency (NSA) leads operations at the facility as the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence.