How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape

sandbagger writes "The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest science experiment. When spinning, it reportedly generates up to six gigs of data per second. Today's six-terabyte tape cartridges fill rapidly when you're creating that amount of material. The Economist reports that despite the advances in SSDs and hard drives, tape still seems to be the way to go when you need to store massive amounts of digital assets."

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Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth

[dshk]

Sequential access speed is only relevant if you backup huge non-fragmented files or entire raw partitions, and nothing else.