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Two or maybe three weeks ago I read here|slashdot|reddit (can't remember) talks about uses of magnetic tapes: they are still being used for large scale backups.
by RBerenguel 16y ago
Two or maybe three weeks ago I read here|slashdot|reddit (can't remember) talks about uses of magnetic tapes: they are still being used for large scale backups. Not outdated (unless you take the point they have a successor, which I am not sure is valid for those using MT)
- jgrahamc 16y agoI attended an interesting event in Silicon Valley last week where storage media was one of the topics. The view there was that tape is going to finally die and be replaced by disk. Essentially we'll use disk for long term storage and flash where we'd use disk today.
- wglb 16y agoWas there any discussion about longevity of storage of disk vs tape? I remember a claim that DAT tape had an expected lifetime of 100 years.