IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge

Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge by Kostic on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:15AM (#14909869)

Can anyone speculate about the price for one unit?

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Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge by sengork on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:26AM (#14909937)

Price per TB would be the more important measure for this kind of storage equipment.

For reference and to put things in context one has to look at LTO generations. From what I see their invention would fall beyond the LTO-10 standard (unless the market forces and manufacturing change dramatically by then).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations

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Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge by tallanvor on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:30AM (#14909967)

Hard to say. That type of capacity isn't even on the LTO road map yet, and IBM is one of the controlling companies there.

LTO-7 currently holds about 6TB uncompressed, and they're about $100 per cartridge. LTO-8 will double the storage, and will probably be available by the end of next year. I'd guess the cartridges will be more expensive initially, but it's hard to say what the premium will be.

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Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge by monocasa on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:02AM (#14911080)

> will probably be available by the end of next year.

I'd be surprised if it took that long.

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Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge by tallanvor on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:16AM (#14928094)

I agree, but I'm going based on the road map, which plans for that version to become available this year or next year.

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