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"In terms of storage potential, a single tape cartridge with this new areal density has the potential to store about 580 terabytes (TB) of data."

(www.ibm.com)

posted by jobes on Technology

7 comments

[–] CDanger 3 points (+3|-0)

Shilling IBM tape to close some Q4 sales, eh?

[–] jobes [OP] 3 points (+3|-0)

ya got me

[–] [Deleted] 2 points (+2|-0)

Tape is still less expensive than any of the alternative archival storage methods.

[+] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

[–] E-werd 0 points (+0|-0)

Cheap, but slow.

[–] 16Mega 1 points (+1|-0)

Edited

When I got my first 20 Gig hard drive, back in the early 2000s, it felt as if it could not be filled up in a hundred years! 😌

[–] jobes [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

Don't worry, every 5G post with a camera can log every piece of video footage soon