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As IBM seems to be the last man standing in the tape storage market, the TCO price of tape is not a market price against competitors, but against HDD storage.
by fh973 3y ago
As IBM seems to be the last man standing in the tape storage market, the TCO price of tape is not a market price against competitors, but against HDD storage.
The TCO of tape only makes sense at scale, and is much harder to assess than HDDs, as tape cost includes media, drives and libraries, each of which have different life times. Tape libraries can be used across many tape generations.
- skissane 3y ago> As IBM seems to be the last man standing in the tape storage market I wonder if IBM is going to introduce a new generation of 3592, or is LTO the “last man standing” too? The latest IBM 3592 drive generation (20TB uncompressed), came out in 2018. At the time, their roadmap had future generations promising 30, 40, 80 TB capacity-but I’m thinking, five years on, if they were going to deliver any of that, surely they would have by now?