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Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge by monocasa on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:46AM (#14911463)
We're no where near 330TB tapes. This was an announcement that they were able to, in a lab, make a few inches of what would be a 330TB tape.

The idea is that when we're at a place where you can reliably manufacture 330TB tapes, fibre channel (or whatever we have then for SAN interconnects) will have caught up.

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Re:IBM and Sony cram up to 330TB into tiny tape cartridge by scott00 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:43PM (#14915708)
I realize this is a long way off from production. I guess what I was saying is I think the notion that we may have a 24 Tbps tape drive in 10 years more interesting than the notion that we may have a 330 TB tape drive in 10 years. And I'm wondering if my logic for the bandwidth is faulty, or if that might actually be doable with this technology (eventually).
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