Topic: Exclusive: Seagate confirms 3TB drive

[Simon]

Yes, standard cassette taped to load, Rik.

[Rik]

I think it will have to, Sandra, the size of these disks is quite dangerous in terms of potential loss.

[daveeb]

So that would be a large cupboard full then.

I'm probably miles out but i reckon 2 and a half million floppies should do the job nicely. Assuming each disc takes 30 seconds then you'd be fully backed up in only 2 and a half years. Oh and if a box of 10 discs costs £3 the whole job would cost a mere £750,000  

[sam]

Then came tape drives - enough to try the patience of a saint.

We still use tapes as a way of backing, up they can take a huge amount of data now.

[sam]

I'm probably miles out but i reckon 2 and a half million floppies should do the job nicely. Assuming each disc takes 30 seconds then you'd be fully backed up in only 2 and a half years. Oh and if a box of 10 discs costs £3 the whole job would cost a mere £750,000 

yeah I agree with roughly that value... and it would also take up a huge amount of space - assuming they are 20mm in height that's 44 km stacked on top of each other. This is roughly 5 everests...

[Simon]

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.