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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:Real link by PhunkySchtuff · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A lot of modern tape drives have a read head positioned immediately following the write head, so they continuously read back what they've written to verify that what's on the tape is what you intended to put on the tape.

    Here's a primer on LTO technology

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  2. Re:Real link by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1682300&cid=32529238

    I need no primer on LTO4 technology chief =) Thanks though.