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tw04today at 1:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

> You probably don't want to have to need a separate device to read and a device to write.

I don’t think this would bother the average enterprise in the least. We used to have entire rooms dedicated to tape libraries that housed dozens of tape drives and thousands of tapes each.

The read and write speed are absolutely critical but having to utilize multiple devices isn’t anything new at all.


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bastawhiztoday at 4:01 AM

It doubles design, development, and manufacturing cost, potentially doubling your supply chain. It's not a problem for the consumer.

skycrafter0today at 3:14 AM

Used to? We absolutely still do. LTO is a widely used format, and as far as I'm aware, it is "picking up more steam" each year.

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