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Needless to say, Fujifilm is citing generative AI and other AI-related services as major drivers behind the growing demand for magnetic tape

LTO-10 tapes were released earlier this year, providing a native capacity of 40 terabytes.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Tape is not a new-old technology. Just a hidden tech only bigger companies utilize and the common citizen only comes into contct with as the IT tech of the company.
      Cheapest most secure way of doing WORM backups.
      S3 can do WORM as well but Tape can’t be hacked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            6·
            5 days ago

            It has it’s uses.
            But as any backup solution: Not a singular.
            A proper backup concept has at least 3 copies on at least 2 different medias (types or amount matters only slightly) and one is not at the location of the original.

            Veeam (a backup vendor) has expanded on it with 3-2-1-1-0.
            1 = 1 Backup target is an immutable technology
            0 = 0 errors on the backup (which expects a validation)

            And I honestly like the idea.

            • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              2·
              5 days ago

              yea no thx

              especially if im paying for it

              ot that im surprised companies would get lazy/cheap

              • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                5 days ago

                You pay either way.
                Up front or over a span of time…
                What matters is what you need from your storage.

                  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                    1·
                    5 days ago

                    Again: It depends.

                    I would use it as a storage provider on which I would put an encrypted veracrypt drive (or whatevee is the good stuff).
                    Or as an off-site storage provider for my backup.

                    As a single atorage site? Nah. Too expensive for my home needs.
                    For a business? If you can’t afford to drop 1200€ for 3x 4TB SSDs to bring your data backups off-site? Pretty good offering.
                    And the immutability is a plus as well.