Tapes are going to be the main storage medium for a long time. I'd like to know how many years you can store a tape and acces it without the tape being faulty or bad. Optical storage is still not reliable. I've read an article about the BDXL optical disk that means a blu-ray disk with 100GB storage but the damn disc costs as much as a 100GB harddrive. I hope they will make the optical storage more reliable in the future then after that tapes can be discarded...
I have said tape based system for ever - it makes me laugh when people pay and download music from the internet, and then there hard drive goes - what are you going to do? keep copying them to hard drive to hard drive? - you need something physical, like a tape based system. You can easily splice a tape back together, but a hard drive etc - no way you can do that
@m134mr when a hhd 'goes', it's usually just the reading needle arm that breaks, but the disk itself remains undamaged. Still costs more to repair than buying a new hhd though.
because you need special tolls for writing/reading on the tape. and that tech costs too much. and hdd/ssd drives are more accesible for computers that need speed.
@CRAKIZGOOD because they store data in a linear fashion, so it takes longer to access the data compared to disk. That and the drive needed to read / write the LTO tapes are several thousand dollars.
It's too bad the data retrieval time is super slow on tapes.
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DULIKAMARASINGHE 1 year ago
35 terabytes on one tape cart, wow! That's incredible, I can remember when one 10 inch open reel tape had a capacity of about 200 megabytes.
douglas787 1 year ago
Tapes are going to be the main storage medium for a long time. I'd like to know how many years you can store a tape and acces it without the tape being faulty or bad. Optical storage is still not reliable. I've read an article about the BDXL optical disk that means a blu-ray disk with 100GB storage but the damn disc costs as much as a 100GB harddrive. I hope they will make the optical storage more reliable in the future then after that tapes can be discarded...
GRiZLOC 1 year ago
I have said tape based system for ever - it makes me laugh when people pay and download music from the internet, and then there hard drive goes - what are you going to do? keep copying them to hard drive to hard drive? - you need something physical, like a tape based system. You can easily splice a tape back together, but a hard drive etc - no way you can do that
m134mr 2 years ago
@m134mr when a hhd 'goes', it's usually just the reading needle arm that breaks, but the disk itself remains undamaged. Still costs more to repair than buying a new hhd though.
itsBarcode 1 year ago
interesting!
zr0hero83 2 years ago
wait wait
let me get this straight
ive found a 1600 GB tape for 42 dollars
why do people buy 1 tb drives to backup media
CRAKIZGOOD 2 years ago
@CRAKIZGOOD The hardware needed for using them is worth thousands in USD.
kirbydragon 2 years ago 3
WHAT 9000 !!!!!!
thx :P
CRAKIZGOOD 2 years ago
because you need special tolls for writing/reading on the tape. and that tech costs too much. and hdd/ssd drives are more accesible for computers that need speed.
sswarhero 2 years ago
@CRAKIZGOOD Tape is unreliable and deteriorates.
strangerd4nger 2 years ago
@strangerd4nger HDD's and SSD's can brick themselves and be unreadable so what is your point?
karnak99 2 years ago
HDD's and SSD's are more reliable than tape, can't you read?
strangerd4nger 2 years ago
Thusly tape has no use in your brain? Can't you comprehend?
karnak99 2 years ago
@CRAKIZGOOD because they store data in a linear fashion, so it takes longer to access the data compared to disk. That and the drive needed to read / write the LTO tapes are several thousand dollars.
cloudld 2 years ago
This is very good news!
Thanks for sharing. :))
DatboiR0b 2 years ago