[Talisker]

I cannot believe this. Serious cognitive dissonance reading this in 2012! Tape!? As in tape drives!? A tape drive is one hell of a complex close spec-ed non cheap thing! In fact high quality tape drives for Pro Audio were underwritten by sales of the high tech monster tape drives used by industry and the military. There weren't enough buyers of audio drives to support the level of R&D that produced the best drives. Can't believe anyone wants to use them for storage.

Did you miss the "portable 125TB" part?

[Lurker]

Why on earth you you need to carry that much data around with you? Back it up to a VM server with a SAN. Pull down whatever of it you need on demand.

Done.

[TalBlack]

“Did you miss the “portable 125TB” part? “

If it’s rolling tape it has to do it the way tape drives roll tape, as far as I know. That requires complexity. Tape drives at the height of their use were amazingly complex and reliable. But start, stop, FF, rewind, search beats hell out of the mech as well as grinds down the tape path. I’m abosolutely stunned that they have a present day use.

[Neidermeyer]

Did you miss the “portable 125TB” part?
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portability is the key to making “CTAM”* work..

*CTAM = “Chevy Truck Access Method” to be used in case of hurricane , fire , flood or any other disaster.