In Reply to: Personally... posted by mkuller on March 9, 2015 at 18:53:44:
BTW sorry green if this sounds like Im trying to slam you. Im really not.
Its just this notion of magnetic tape holding CRAZY amounts of data as being anything new.
Being a computer nerd from years gone by, this is nothing earth shattering. Never mind the notion that dating back to the 50s they were doing this.
But to keep it remotely comparative to today, in the mid 90s on up, magnetic tape was clearly shown as being one of the most cost effective ways of storing large amounts of data.
In a way, its kind of a nod to the notion of how analog sounds better. LOL.... Im not a die hard on this way of thinking. But its funny how it applies in a weird sort of way here if you wish ;)
Theres nothing stopping any company to hone in on what could be achieved applying better compression algorithms than every before on better and narrower record and playback heads. It makes complete evolutionary logic to me. Just as has been proven before, its not terribly practical for "consumer" use today. Read/write times would be terrible compared to silicon.
Organic storage will be the next evolutionary tech is my guess. No not us plugged into the matrix ;). Just not relying only on silicon or mag for storage in general.
In closing. If you posted this in tonge and cheek, and I just went on this over detailed explanation only to make an ass of myself.... well... add me to the list of those who have done so LOL...
All the best man :)
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Follow Ups
- Thank you, my thoughts too.... who cares. Any idea what a VHS tape COULD hold digi data wise - 2chJunkie 23:08:56 03/09/15 (4)
- VHS was used briefly for data storage but never really caught on.... - AbeCollins 00:31:47 03/10/15 (3)
- Oh wow, never knew it. Thats actually quite impressive considering... found some neat info! - 2chJunkie 05:19:01 03/10/15 (2)
- RE: Oh wow, never knew it. Thats actually quite impressive considering... found some neat info! - AbeCollins 07:22:48 03/10/15 (1)
- Again wow. Really cool unique tech toy I never knew of. - 2chJunkie 08:12:35 03/10/15 (0)