I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.

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    1 year ago

    Tape drives are still in use in a lot of places too. Enormous density in storage for stuff that’s in “cold storage”