I wonder about using these for science data archival, although these days I suppose that most projects can just provision archival from a commercial vendor.
A vendor like what AWS does with Glacier
Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
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#142Time for the ever golden quote: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
>To put 580 terabytes in perspective, it’s roughly the equivalent of 120,000 DVDs or 786,977 CDs — IBM notes that stacking that many CDs would result in a tower 3,097 feet (944m) tall, or taller than Burj Kalifa, the world’s tallest building.
Is that just the media or the media + protective jewel cases?
Just the media
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#144Aw, c'mon chaps! Can we just admire the tech for a second? > Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch... > When tape is being read it is streamed over the head at a speed of about 15 km/h and with our new servo technologies we are still able to position the tape head with an accuracy that is about 1.5 times the width of a DNA molecule.
Loveliest part was the part right before that:
“Just let me geek out for a second”
Absolutely IBM storage person, the more geeking out the better!
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#145Re: Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
#146Great, so when can I buy one and how much will the tape drive cost? The largest issue with tape is that the drives themselves cost absurd amounts, and you better not cheap out because failure is both time consuming and scary. Swapping tapes continues to be human intensive and restore times long. But the tapes themselves are so cheap that at this scale it becomes worthwhile again.
Is it possible to buy tape drives in the 2nd hand market for a reasonable price?
It is - the kicker is (and always has been) the media.
Re: Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
#147Aw, c'mon chaps! Can we just admire the tech for a second? > Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch... > When tape is being read it is streamed over the head at a speed of about 15 km/h and with our new servo technologies we are still able to position the tape head with an accuracy that is about 1.5 times the width of a DNA molecule.
> Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch Me wondering about those micro SD cards that can store 1Tb.
Maybe around an order of magnitude more. The big difference is that square inch of tape might be 3-5 orders of magnitude cheaper to manufacture.
Re: Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
#148Aw, c'mon chaps! Can we just admire the tech for a second? > Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch... > When tape is being read it is streamed over the head at a speed of about 15 km/h and with our new servo technologies we are still able to position the tape head with an accuracy that is about 1.5 times the width of a DNA molecule.
> Data on the tape is stored at a record-breaking density of 317 gigabytes per square inch Me wondering about those micro SD cards that can store 1Tb.
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#149I'm more interested in the lifetime of the medium. Durable backup media for consumers is still a holy grail as I understand. M-DISC didn't hold up to their 1000 year lifetime promise. Archival-grade DVD's are also not good enough as I understand. Syylex went bankrupt. I want a consumer-grade backup medium that can provide at least a 100 years of lifetime. That said, I was able to recover 90% of the voice recordings m…
piql is the company that did the github arctic vault. And they offer it as a service. Maybe not for general public but still .
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#150We reached an inflection 'amazing!' point when we are able to put '100 songs in your pocket'. That was really a shocking thing given the limitations of CD/Tape etc.. But the real inflection point may come when 'all relevant information in your local disk'. The tapes here in question can maybe store every book every written! We may be able to put the entirety of Wikipedia, every film, TV Show ever made, every book eve…
Not going to happen. Once you think you've got everything locally, exponentially more will be generated anew by everyone.