Mark Lantz, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug 2018
"Disk drives are reaching their limits, but magnetic tape just gets better and better. A single tape cartridge could record as much data as a wheelbarrow full of hard drives."
Why the Future of Data Storage is Magnetic Tape
Luke Reyes
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Nathan King
"Indeed, tape may be one of the last information technologies to follow a Moore’s Law–like scaling, maintaining that for the next decade, if not beyond. And that streak in turn will only increase the cost advantage of tape over hard drives and other storage technologies. So even though you may rarely see it outside of a black-and-white movie, magnetic tape, old as it is, will be here for years to come."
Ryan Edwards
Tape is abysmal for random access, but you're right in a way, if the price of LTO drives goes down, tape will be the backup format of choice for the future. Right now, the tapes themselves extremely cheap per TB, but the drives are fucking bonkers, ~$5000 new.
John Hall
They're great for archival storage, but accessing them is just so fucking slow.
Nathan Allen
I've always had a nostalgic affection for tape drives. Just a pain the prices are so high, and it seems unnecessary. Plus the "low-end" tape drive market seems dead due to the cancellation of future DAT based formats.
Leo Jones
no thanks I don't need a backup medium that can be destroyed by a stray magnet
didn't read the article but I'm sure whatever they are doing with magnetic tape could be done with optical storage as well
Isaiah Wood
I don't know that you'll get near the densities afforded by magnetic media - the density of optical media being limited by the wavelength used.
Holographic disks have great potential, but they seem to be permanent vapourware. I've been hearing about how holographic disks are the next thing for the last 20 years.
Josiah Cook
Luke Sanchez
tape backups have existed in enterprise since the 50’s.
I hate those fuckers and the garbage software that manages it so no thank you.
Dylan Robinson
Just random access and seek, sequential r/w is pretty decent. LTO-8 can sustain 360MB/s write speeds