Which would beat current LTO tape, that’s the real goal they have. It’s not replacing hard drives, random read time isn’t important, it’s archive. Tape can be real finicky to store at volume, but it’s amazing at archiving. A single tape can now natively hold well over 20TB and doesn’t need to be kept powered on.
Which would beat current LTO tape, that’s the real goal they have. It’s not replacing hard drives, random read time isn’t important, it’s archive. Tape can be real finicky to store at volume, but it’s amazing at archiving. A single tape can now natively hold well over 20TB and doesn’t need to be kept powered on.