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Tape? What are they gonna do, write ISAM streams?
I have had the worst time with tape systems. They write then fail to read.
Gee, I thought my backups take too long now.
Shrug. So it will take me only 3 days to fill it. Got something bigger?
I have no idea what I just read.
IBM, Fujifilm tape promises 35TB of storage
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BM estimated that a tape cartridge using the technologies in the prototype could hold up to 35TB of uncompressed data, about 44 times the capacity of the company's LTO Generation 4 cartridge.
The prototype shows that commercial digital tape products have plenty of room for continued development, IBM argued.
"This tape storage density demonstration represents a step towards developing technologies to achieve tape areal recording densities of 100 billion bits per square inch and beyond. Such technologies will be necessary to keep up with the rapid increase in digital information," said IBM fellow Evangelos Eleftheriou in a statement.
The prototype builds on IBM and Fujifilm research, including a new high-density tape, more accurate servo control technologies, new signal-processing algorithms and low-friction read/write head assemblies.
They will still need 2 of these tapes to contain all the personal pronouns uses in the SOTU show.
Tape is too slow. I have worked on Apex 1 TB machines and TO3 800 gb. Tape has seen it’s last days.