Game Server costs

[LostSoul]

Originally Posted by Shoganai

tape systems are still in heavy use for disaster recovery purposes. You offload all your databases onto tape, package them up, and then ship them offsite to be stored. The truck then picks up the tapes that are due to be rotated out, and brings those back to be wiped, tested, and reused

And I love my SSD... load times in Skyrim? Lol... practically non-existant :P

Oh true. I had forgotten about that aspect. Granted you're going to pay a lot of cash for the drives themselves, but the disks are cheap enough that you can make several dozen copies compared to the price of one HDD of a similar capacity (translates into a LOT of redundancy for data capture and restoration). Off-site backup storage is a little bit different of a job.

And yes...I'm loving the SDDs in my current system. WoW zones load faster than the server can finish transfering my character around.

[hay82]

Originally Posted by LostSoul

Today's SSDs probably won't but the next gen version or the version following that will be quite capable of replacing HDDs altogether in every way. I honestly would expect 1tb range SSDs to become pretty commonplace in a couple years, and about the same price point current SSDs are sitting.

As for tape-drives most of those are serving legacy systems rather than newer ones. A high-end raid array has far better longevity, reliability, capacity, and performance....but you have to deal with hardware compatibility issues in any system older than more than 3-4 years.

Once the price of SSDs is low enough they'll replace but I think that's quite a while off. Of course I work with used so I'm a few years behind in what's happening, so I haven't encountered much of SSD in my work yet.

I'm not sure about tape only being used for legacy systems. It's much cheaper than HDDs. The amount of storage needed is growing and not all of it is needed to be accessible almost instantly and that's where tape comes in.