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Recent Sales Hint That Tape For Storage Is Far From Dead 228

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 10, 2010 @04:50PM
from the didn't-you-know-that-tar-is-sticky? dept.

hightechchick writes "Staples' business-to-business sales of backup tape for storage are experiencing a bit of a revival. What's next, a return to dumb terminals and mainframes (a la cloud computing)?"

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What's Next? (Score:5, Funny)

by Monkeedude1212 (1560403) writes: on Thursday June 10, 2010 @04:53PM (#32528872) Journal

I'll tell you whats next...
A device that lets you type up a word document and it prints it out real time. Essentially it prints your keystrokes as soon as you press them. I also foresee it having an extremely long battery life.

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Re:Real link (Score:3, Funny)

by PhunkySchtuff (208108) writes: <kai@automatica.com . a u> on Thursday June 10, 2010 @05:38PM (#32529418) Homepage

Oh, you go and store 17PB on LTO and you think you know it all do you?
I'll just duck off to my corner and resume setting up my 8-slot autoloader.
As you were...

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Re:Not news. (Score:3, Funny)

by Hognoxious (631665) writes: on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:25AM (#32532328) Homepage Journal

Is it light enough for our female sysadmin to carry it?
Does it weigh less than 20 pairs of shoes (including retail packaging) and ten boxes of chocolates?

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Paper or plastic? (Score:4, Funny)

by quenda (644621) writes: on Friday June 11, 2010 @01:40AM (#32532396)

For *real* archiving, you cannot beat paper tape. I don't trust it unless I can see the holes.

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