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HP claims electricity costs of disks are greater than TCO for Tape

01-02-2013 10:13AM

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/01/hp_lto_6/

“the cost of energy alone for the average disk-based solution exceeds the entire TCO for the average tape-based solution.”

I still HATE tapes though.

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