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Re:Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM by HPsquared on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @08:33AM (#43631343)
Comparing like-for-like (tape storage), you can now buy 45TB tape cartridges. That's a 500,000 times improvement per tape.

Edit: apparently these cartridges actually are 18TB, 45TB is "compressed" capacity. Still though, terrible marketing aside it's still factor of 225,000.

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