With a pile of random access devices, the time and cost of a single record retrieve is low, though the cost of bulk records can get high.
All the oppressors need is a half decade window, maybe a decade to be pretty much golden, as far as totalitarianism goes.
The tape will definitely hold the data, and then some apparently.
But access costs go up.
The drives seem to encourage indiscriminate targeting.
Tapes would at least favor some priority.
The smarter bears will use both!
You are not wrong about what it will take.
With a pile of random access devices, the time and cost of a single record retrieve is low, though the cost of bulk records can get high.
All the oppressors need is a half decade window, maybe a decade to be pretty much golden, as far as totalitarianism goes.
The tape will definitely hold the data, and then some apparently.
But access costs go up.
The drives seem to encourage indiscriminate targeting.
Tapes would at least favor some priority.
The smarter bears will use both!
You are not wrong about what it will take.