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Recent Sales Hint That Tape For Storage Is Far From Dead

Posted by timothy on from the didn't-you-know-that-tar-is-sticky? dept.

hightechchick writes "Staples' business-to-business sales of backup tape for storage are experiencing a bit of a revival. What's next, a return to dumb terminals and mainframes (a la cloud computing)?"

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  1. What's Next? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll tell you whats next...

    A device that lets you type up a word document and it prints it out real time. Essentially it prints your keystrokes as soon as you press them. I also foresee it having an extremely long battery life.

  2. Re:Real link by PhunkySchtuff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, you go and store 17PB on LTO and you think you know it all do you?

    I'll just duck off to my corner and resume setting up my 8-slot autoloader.

    As you were...

    --
    Specialist Mac support for creative pros, Melbourne
  3. Re:Not news. by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it light enough for our female sysadmin to carry it?

    Does it weigh less than 20 pairs of shoes (including retail packaging) and ten boxes of chocolates?

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  4. Paper or plastic? by quenda · · Score: 3, Funny

    For *real* archiving, you cannot beat paper tape. I don't trust it unless I can see the holes.