After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 29, 2012 @08:28AM from the sentience-from-unexpected-source dept.

Lucas123 writes "While magnetic tape is about as boring as technology gets, it's still the cheapest storage medium and among the fastest in sequential reads and writes. And, with the release of LTO-6 with 8TB cartridges around the corner and the relatively new open linear tape file system (LTFS) being embraced by movie and television markets, tape is taking on a new life. It may even climb out of the dusty archives that cheap disk has relegated it to. 'Over the last two years, disk drives have gotten bigger, they've gone from 1TB to 3TB, but they haven't gotten faster. They're more like tape. Meanwhile, tape is going the other direction, it's getting faster,' said Mark Lemmons, CTO of Thought Equity Motion, a cloud storage service for the motion picture industry."

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Sci-Fi is Reel again by Ukab+the+Great · 2012-03-29 08:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Once again, Reel-To-Reel computers are no longer anachronistic in 60's Sci-Fi shows.
1. Re:Sci-Fi is Reel again by Hoi+Polloi · 2012-03-29 09:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And the tar command will actually refer to tapes again
  
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Reinserts itself by techstar25 · 2012-03-29 08:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Sure, it reinserts itself, but when it's finished does it take itself out, flip it to the other side, and then reinsert itself again?
1. Re:Reinserts itself by emurphy42 · 2012-03-29 08:33 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Only if you get the Mobius tape, which costs extra.