Facebook puts 10,000 Blu-ray discs in low-power storage system
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#2"The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent compared with its current cold-storage system, which uses hard disk drives.."
Not bad. Anyone know how it would compare to tape?
Re: Facebook puts 10,000 Blu-ray discs in low-power storage system
#3"The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent compared with its current cold-storage system, which uses hard disk drives.." Not bad. Anyone know how it would compare to tape?
Tape is still cheaper per Gb. Google uses StorageTek SL8500 and Spectralogic T-Finity libraries to manage it's backups and cost is significantly smaller then trying to do that with spindles.