"Finally, enough storage for my porn stash!"
NSA probably is buying their stock on this.
I hope TEAC has a capstan mod kit for 0.00000002793967723846435546875 ips.
"Finally, enough storage for my porn stash!"
The article uses a bad example, Blu-Ray, for comparison. Blu-Ray is not serious used in enetrprise backup and archiving.
The article SHOULD have compared the storage capacity to existing tape and magnetic disc drives. It still comes out really well.
For instance, the highest capacity hard drive I know of is 6TB. With compression, maybe 10TB. Most enterprise drives hold much less.
The current generation of LTO tape drive, LTO-6, holds only 2.5TB uncompressed.
The amount stored is so massive that rather than having shelves of hundreds of tapes, a handful will be all that is needed.
HOWEVER: since it is such a massive amount, and tape is sequential, not random access, restores may be negatively affected. Also, while a typical big league tape library may have a dozen or more tape drives spinning (IBM 3584), only having one take the place of all of them may interfere with backup windows, unless the drive (and its interface) is fast enough to keep up.
Will the tapes plant a boot sector trojan virus when used? Sony did that before with their music CDs.
I helped develop an optical Blu-Ray wavelength Tape system for Sun just before they were purchased by Oracle. There was a lot of IP filed around it. They shelved the program shortly after the purchase.
Wonder if Oracle sold the IP to Sony or if it came out of their own lab.
Hell...I was impressed with the 64g flash drive I bought yesterday.
I need this for my copies of Gilligan’s Island and Hogans Heroes
That’s a lot of pr0n.
...What is that, now you can “own every John Wayne movie ever made..on one disc!”
Maybe we’ll come full circle to wax phonographic storage cylinders.