Made in IBM Labs: IBM Research Sets New Record in Magnetic Tape Data Density
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IBM researchers today announced they have demonstrated a world record in areal data density on linear magnetic tape -- a significant update to one of the computer industry's most resilient, reliable and affordable data storage technologies.
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It's too bad the data retrieval time is super slow on tapes.
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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.
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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...
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@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.
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Thusly tape has no use in your brain? Can't you comprehend?
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HDD's and SSD's are more reliable than tape, can't you read?
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@strangerd4nger HDD's and SSD's can brick themselves and be unreadable so what is your point?
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@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.
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@CRAKIZGOOD The hardware needed for using them is worth thousands in USD.
kirbydragon 2 years ago 3
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