Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.

  • breakingcups@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No one really knows, and Amazon won’t say. There’s speculation it’s tape, low-rpm drives connected to custom logic boards, Blu ray, etc.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It’s almost certainly tape, a single LTO9 cartridge can hold 18TBs of data for cheap compared to the equivalent drive.

      Blu-ray is unlikely, only quad layer BR have a decent capacity at 125GB each and quality ones are hard to find these days. Sony has even stopped making their blu ray based Optical Disk Archival system thing.

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        3 months ago

        It’s almost certainly spare space from massive S3 disk pools that’s unused.