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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. Re:Not news. by Pinky's+Brain · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Modern cheap SATA drives have average linear read and write speeds of around 120 MB/s.

  2. Re:Not news. by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please name a disk that can keep it up for the whole disk. This will be 1TB+ of random data written in 1 shot.

    I have not seen any yet, but would love to find one.

  3. Re:Not news. by afidel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dude, my biggest problem is keeping the damn LTO4 drives fed at MINIMUM write speeds for file server type small file workloads. 72x15k spindles isn't enough with only one volume being backed up, metadata retrieval makes it too slow, I need to have multiple volumes backing up simultaneously to keep the things from shoeshining.

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  4. Re:Real link by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 3, Interesting
    More than 17,000, all stored in huge Storagetek libraries:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Storagetek-tape_drive_hg.jpg

    More info on CERN's infosystems for the collider, as they're the Tier-0 site (which means, in realtime, they take the raw detector data, strip it to the bare essentials, and than shove it out to Tier-1 sites at up to 40Gb/s (depending on the detector/experiment):

    http://news.cnet.com/8300-11386_3-76-2.html?keyword=CERN