Storage milestone: 330TB on one mag tape cartridge

[twobjshelbys]

Tape is dead. Long live tape. They've been crying this mantra since the mid 80's.

https://secondnexus.com/science/ibm-large-storage-small-size/?utm_content=inf_10_1164_2&tse_id=INF_d8c1c830b15e11e78240a3a6bbddd67d

We're not likely to see this in the consumer space. These are relegated to the monstrous data centers that power the cloud. I remember the data cylinder robots that IBM and Storage Tek made.

[Tommy Gun]

Crazy

So if I bring all my cassette tapes to IBM they could put them all on one tape? :giggle:

[The Bone]

Crazy

So if I bring all my cassette tapes to IBM they could put them all on one tape? :giggle:


Ya and you will still have room for all those naked pictures you have of granny. :rofl:

[68fastback]

Ya and you will still have room for all those naked pictures you have of granny. :rofl:

:spitcopy:

[68fastback]

Tape is dead. Long live tape. They've been crying this mantra since the mid 80's.

https://secondnexus.com/science/ibm-large-storage-small-size/?utm_content=inf_10_1164_2&tse_id=INF_d8c1c830b15e11e78240a3a6bbddd67d

We're not likely to see this in the consumer space. These are relegated to the monstrous data centers that power the cloud. I remember the data cylinder robots that IBM and Storage Tek made.

That is truly astounding! ...and in a package 1/2 the size of a cell phone :faint:
The ultimate tradeoff of capacity vs access time -lol

[Joe G]

Ya and you will still have room for all those naked pictures you have of granny. :rofl:

:ohsnap:

:logical:

[Alloy Dave]

Will all Hillary's emails fit?

[Highwayman]

The ultimate tradeoff of capacity vs access time -lol

Yep, that is the main draw back, along with having to start the backup over when a glitch happens during the backup.

[68fastback]

Yep, that is the main draw back, along with having to start the backup over when a glitch happens during the backup.

The NSA doesn't like glitches :giggle: