Re:Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terab...
by klodolph on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:56PM
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> Swapping tapes continues to be human intensive and restore times long.
Restore times are definitely long, but you can mostly avoid human labor by putting the tapes in a tape library, which will load tapes in the drives using robots. You still need technicians around because tapes / drives / robots will break, but individual restore operations can be completely automated.
Restore times are definitely long, but you can mostly avoid human labor by putting the tapes in a tape library, which will load tapes in the drives using robots. You still need technicians around because tapes / drives / robots will break, but individual restore operations can be completely automated.