After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself 312
Lucas123 writes "While magnetic tape is about as boring as technology gets, it's still the cheapest storage medium and among the fastest in sequential reads and writes. And, with the release of LTO-6 with 8TB cartridges around the corner and the relatively new open linear tape file system (LTFS) being embraced by movie and television markets, tape is taking on a new life. It may even climb out of the dusty archives that cheap disk has relegated it to. 'Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster. They're more like tape. Meanwhile, tape is going the other direction, it's getting faster,' said Mark Lemmons, CTO of Thought Equity Motion, a cloud storage service for the motion picture industry."
Sci-Fi is Reel again (Score:5, Funny)
Once again, Reel-To-Reel computers are no longer anachronistic in 60's Sci-Fi shows.
Reinserts itself (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reinserts itself (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reinserts itself (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, it reinserts itself, but when it's finished does it take itself out, flip it to the other side, and then reinsert itself again?
:P TFS suggests so:
Meanwhile, tape is going the other direction
Re:Tape never died or lost its supremacy (Score:3, Funny)
You have way too much porn.
Re:Sci-Fi is Reel again (Score:5, Funny)
And blow up with explosions, even if there is nothing remotely explosive stored around or within them.
Re:Sci-Fi is Reel again (Score:5, Funny)
And the tar command will actually refer to tapes again
Re:Tape never died or lost its supremacy (Score:4, Funny)
SLAMMMM
That's the sound of an asteroid impacting the building holding any backups occurring.
SMASHHHH
that's the sound of the building that holds all computer equipment for the business, and it's just been ran into by a steam powered locomotive that oddly wasn't on tracks!
DERRR
That's you... for not understanding that there are protective measures already in place in data centers. For things that you just can't stop (the above...), you don't lose sleep over and you have redundant locations. (if it's that important)
Re:Reinserts itself (Score:5, Funny)
It do sn't; it ju t has many an oying g ps in it.
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