We have two of these. The high density frames there are multiple tapes deep so you have to move the front ones to get to a back one and the gripper only hold 2 tapes. Check out spectralogic for what I think is a superior way of holding multiple tapes.
Some laugh at how in a futuristic spy TV program a file folder is carried down a long hallway of file cabinets by a mechanical hand. A file cabinet opens to receive the dropped file. Parisian bureaucrats who saw a future of pneumatic tubes might see this apparatus as an example of the more things change the more they stay the same. Are there still file clerks, and book pullers on roller skates? Some data centers have bicycles for people to traverse the acres of servers. Ingesting, ingesting.
And the funny thing is that this library most likely stores recorded telephone conversations or intercepted correspondence on social networks. The future we deserve.
well, although I'm not sure of the inner construction - but to me this looks like a design flaw: the main switcher grabs a tape from one of the drives - puts it into some empty slot just to re-grab it with the other switcher - why the tape isn't grabbed by the final switcher in the first place? if you scale this up even this couple of seconds add up to hours of wasted time over time rather quickly - if you calc how much money you lose just to that - wouldn't it be more efficient to optimize it so the switcher grabs the tape with the correct one right out of the drive?
Cryptearth, you have a keen eye for the motions in the video, however, the motions you are seeing is the optimization of motion to the pickers and the robot to retrieve tape media that is stored in the second to fifth tier of the deep cell storage. If the media is in the second tier, the first pick grabs the tier 1 cartridge and the second grabs the tier 2 requested media. The TS4500 tape library optimizes cell placement in the deep cells base don relative activity level of the media.
@@shawnbrume1151 well, since I made this comment I already learned that the slots hold several cartridges - kinda like multiple packs of the same item are staggered in the shelfs in a grocery store but to someone not knowing this it looks as the system would regrab the same cartridge several times instead of multiple layers deep within the same slot
I feel the Space Odyssey 2001 reference :) Nice
An interesting setup. It seems to spend quite a bit of time fiddling with the stack, is it re-organising the tapes when it has nothing else to do?
We have two of these. The high density frames there are multiple tapes deep so you have to move the front ones to get to a back one and the gripper only hold 2 tapes. Check out spectralogic for what I think is a superior way of holding multiple tapes.
The music makes me think of Boundary Benchmark program for real time Ray tracing hardware
Thank You for sharing! It's fun to watch!
Some laugh at how in a futuristic spy TV program a file folder is carried down a long hallway of file cabinets by a mechanical hand. A file cabinet opens to receive the dropped file. Parisian bureaucrats who saw a future of pneumatic tubes might see this apparatus as an example of the more things change the more they stay the same. Are there still file clerks, and book pullers on roller skates? Some data centers have bicycles for people to traverse the acres of servers. Ingesting, ingesting.
And the funny thing is that this library most likely stores recorded telephone conversations or intercepted correspondence on social networks. The future we deserve.
my brain trying to recall that one video i seen ten years ago
Are these LTO or 3592 tapes?
well, although I'm not sure of the inner construction - but to me this looks like a design flaw:
the main switcher grabs a tape from one of the drives - puts it into some empty slot just to re-grab it with the other switcher - why the tape isn't grabbed by the final switcher in the first place? if you scale this up even this couple of seconds add up to hours of wasted time over time rather quickly - if you calc how much money you lose just to that - wouldn't it be more efficient to optimize it so the switcher grabs the tape with the correct one right out of the drive?
Cryptearth, you have a keen eye for the motions in the video, however, the motions you are seeing is the optimization of motion to the pickers and the robot to retrieve tape media that is stored in the second to fifth tier of the deep cell storage. If the media is in the second tier, the first pick grabs the tier 1 cartridge and the second grabs the tier 2 requested media. The TS4500 tape library optimizes cell placement in the deep cells base don relative activity level of the media.
@@shawnbrume1151 well, since I made this comment I already learned that the slots hold several cartridges - kinda like multiple packs of the same item are staggered in the shelfs in a grocery store
but to someone not knowing this it looks as the system would regrab the same cartridge several times instead of multiple layers deep within the same slot
very beautirull
Omg its so cute
is this what is called tape jukebox?
oh no i lost the activation index to halo on one of the tapes, this insues.