Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Xiao Zhan for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com May 25 news, for big data Storage Company, tape storage has never disappeared. According to the professional tape company LTO (made up of HPE, IBM and Kunteng), the shipment of tape storage products has increased by 0.5% in 2022. This news has aroused widespread concern in the industry, and once again proved the important position of tape storage as an old technology in the data storage market.

▲ image source LTO website although tape storage is a bit out of date compared with modern technology, it is still a very reliable way to back up data. For those enterprises and users who need to keep data for a long time, tape storage is undoubtedly a good choice. Today, the technical specification of LTO has developed to the ninth generation, that is, LTO-9, and the transmission speed has also been raised to 1000MB/s. Fuji Film has even launched tapes that can store up to 45TB, which is unmatched by ordinary commercial hard drives. From this we can see that tape storage is not only not eliminated by the market, but constantly updated and iterated, maintaining a strong vitality.

▲ image source Pexels in the past few years, there is a saying that tape storage technology will be gradually replaced, but most of the industry views this view as alarmist. In fact, tape storage has always been an important backup means in the market, because it can store data longer and more securely, and the price is relatively low. Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, also pointed out that if magnetic tapes are used instead of disks for cold data storage, it is estimated that the 100-year storage cost of 10PB can be reduced by 73%.

CTOnews.com Note: the cost of digital tape storage is very low and the storage density is very high. Compared with hard drives, it is cheaper, more energy-efficient and has a longer service life of up to 50 years. Large enterprises often use professional tape drives and then purchase special tapes for cold backup of data. This storage method tends to last longer than the mechanical hard disk, and the larger the amount of data, the higher the performance-to-price ratio of magnetic tape storage compared to the hard disk.

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