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"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge"
"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge"
https://arstechnica.com/information-...ape-cartridge/ "Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density." I have bought my last tape cartridge but I have to admit, 330 TB on a single tape cartridge is very impressive. Nowadays, I like using additional internal hard drives and external hard drives for our corporate LAN backup of 3.5 TB. Lynn |
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"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge"
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 12:38:12 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote: "IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge" https://arstechnica.com/information-...ape-cartridge/ "Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density." I have bought my last tape cartridge but I have to admit, 330 TB on a single tape cartridge is very impressive. Nowadays, I like using additional internal hard drives and external hard drives for our corporate LAN backup of 3.5 TB. Agreed, it's very impressive, but it's not good enough to bring me back to tape. I wonder how much of a market still exists for that. |
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"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge"
On Friday, August 4, 2017 at 1:38:19 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge" https://arstechnica.com/information-...ape-cartridge/ How long does it take to write 330 TB? I imagine you would start a backup Friday evening and it finishes Monday morning just as the workaholics arrive. |
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"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge"
On 08/03/2017 11:58 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge" https://arstechnica.com/information-...ape-cartridge/ "Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density." I have bought my last tape cartridge but I have to admit, 330 TB on a single tape cartridge is very impressive. Nowadays, I like using additional internal hard drives and external hard drives for our corporate LAN backup of 3.5 TB. Agreed, it's very impressive, but it's not good enough to bring me back to tape. I wonder how much of a market still exists for that. Not so many years ago, a member of my extended family told me that the company for which he worked had large-living-room-sized robotic tape-drive backup systems. I still have my DDS4 8-tape autoloader and the tapes it wrote (multiple generations of backups), but the more recent stuff is all on my FreeNAS machine. Perce |
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"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge"
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:02:57 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote: On 08/03/2017 11:58 PM, Mark Perkins wrote: "IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge" https://arstechnica.com/information-...ape-cartridge/ "Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density." I have bought my last tape cartridge but I have to admit, 330 TB on a single tape cartridge is very impressive. Nowadays, I like using additional internal hard drives and external hard drives for our corporate LAN backup of 3.5 TB. Agreed, it's very impressive, but it's not good enough to bring me back to tape. I wonder how much of a market still exists for that. Not so many years ago, a member of my extended family told me that the company for which he worked had large-living-room-sized robotic tape-drive backup systems. I still have my DDS4 8-tape autoloader and the tapes it wrote (multiple generations of backups), but the more recent stuff is all on my FreeNAS machine. I used to work in a military command center, where one of the daily tasks every evening at 2300 hours was to change the reel-to-reel tape that recorded our approximately 48 phone lines. One Sunday night there was a midair collision involving two of our aircraft, no survivors, and moments after that occurred there was a hunting accident involving two of our military members. One guy had tossed his rifle onto the seat of the pickup and it discharged. At the time, all they knew was there was an awful lot of blood everywhere and the victim had gone into shock, (testicles blown off), so since this was the age before cell phones I had to coordinate EMS for the hunting accident *and* local LE support to cordone off the aircraft crash area. The next day, investigators stopped by to pick up the tape from the night before so they could recreate the timeline and conversations regarding the midair collision. The tape was blank. We stepped back a day, then a week, then a month, finally finding the last good day. That was a wake-up call that we needed to be testing the tapes on a regular basis. I hope they aren't still using that tape system, all these years later, but it's military, so who knows. Things tend to stick around long after their Best Used By date. |
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"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge"
On 08/04/2017 11:43 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge" https://arstechnica.com/information-...ape-cartridge/ "Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density." I have bought my last tape cartridge but I have to admit, 330 TB on a single tape cartridge is very impressive. Nowadays, I like using additional internal hard drives and external hard drives for our corporate LAN backup of 3.5 TB. Agreed, it's very impressive, but it's not good enough to bring me back to tape. I wonder how much of a market still exists for that. Not so many years ago, a member of my extended family told me that the company for which he worked had large-living-room-sized robotic tape-drive backup systems. I still have my DDS4 8-tape autoloader and the tapes it wrote (multiple generations of backups), but the more recent stuff is all on my FreeNAS machine. I used to work in a military command center, where one of the daily tasks every evening at 2300 hours was to change the reel-to-reel tape that recorded our approximately 48 phone lines. One Sunday night there was a midair collision involving two of our aircraft, no survivors, and moments after that occurred there was a hunting accident involving two of our military members. One guy had tossed his rifle onto the seat of the pickup and it discharged. At the time, all they knew was there was an awful lot of blood everywhere and the victim had gone into shock, (testicles blown off), so since this was the age before cell phones I had to coordinate EMS for the hunting accident *and* local LE support to cordone off the aircraft crash area. The next day, investigators stopped by to pick up the tape from the night before so they could recreate the timeline and conversations regarding the midair collision. The tape was blank. We stepped back a day, then a week, then a month, finally finding the last good day. That was a wake-up call that we needed to be testing the tapes on a regular basis. I hope they aren't still using that tape system, all these years later, but it's military, so who knows. Things tend to stick around long after their Best Used By date. My own tape setup did a verify after write. Perce |
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