Recent Sales Hint That Tape For Storage Is Far From Dead

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)?"

What's Next?

[Monkeedude1212]

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.

Re:Real link

[PhunkySchtuff]

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...

Re:Not news.

[Hognoxious]

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?

Paper or plastic?

[quenda]

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