Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge
by jandrese on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:02AM
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The other problem is that Hard Drives are cheap as hell and tapes, especially ones loaded into automatic robots, are really not that cheap.
It's the perennial disappointment with tape drives that the media has "enterprise" pricing, making it barely better per TB than cheap consumer spinning hard drives.
It's the perennial disappointment with tape drives that the media has "enterprise" pricing, making it barely better per TB than cheap consumer spinning hard drives.