ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWhat's a trend people outside of your field / hobby are probably unaware of?message-squaremessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down13
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minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up72·edit-24 months agoOn-prem still has its uses Platter harddrives are still useful Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 months agoIf you’re not archiving old data on tapes and shipping them off to a converted bomb shelter, you’re not doing it right.
minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 months agoThat is literally what we do at my job. Three copies: One for the client who paid for it, one for us (internal processing and testing only), and one as a backup goes to a storage location that is a converted cold war era bomb shelter.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 months ago Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete But the drive is pricey :)
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoAlso, do you really need high performance SSDs? Are you actually writing the drive volume a day?
minus-squareZacpod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoOn prem is, in almost all cases, cheaper than cloud. Even when you include the salaries of the folks managing it. But MBAs will pay a LOT for outages to be someone else’s problem.
On-prem still has its uses
Platter harddrives are still useful
Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete
If you’re not archiving old data on tapes and shipping them off to a converted bomb shelter, you’re not doing it right.
That is literally what we do at my job.
Three copies: One for the client who paid for it, one for us (internal processing and testing only), and one as a backup goes to a storage location that is a converted cold war era bomb shelter.
But the drive is pricey :)
Also, do you really need high performance SSDs? Are you actually writing the drive volume a day?
On prem is, in almost all cases, cheaper than cloud. Even when you include the salaries of the folks managing it.
But MBAs will pay a LOT for outages to be someone else’s problem.