On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 16:20 -0700, Ed Gould wrote: > Over the last few years I have seen more and more articles stating companies > are replacing tape drives with disk drives. > > I realize that most of the talk is from small computer users. However I > am seeing and hearing stories that the movement has started with > mainframes. I was wondering if anyone on here is seeing that trend or > staying the same (or increasing). Now I know tape capacity is going > through the roof and that might be the reason why some people are > saying disk is replacing tape. Disk space is really becoming cheaper > so its not impossible that this might be happening. > > >From my (admittedly dated) perspective, until the ability to share > disk drives (transparently) I do not see the use of tape really > decreasing all that much. I would like to hear from the list what > their thoughts are about disk replacing tapes on the mainframe > happening. Soon/not in the next 20 years/never. > > Ed
I often wonder how these non-tape users address things like 10 year archival copies of programs, data, and reports. Which we need for legal reasons. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
