Music tapes will bring back warm, fuzzy memories to those born in the early s, but magnetic ribbons have long been replaced by shiny coasters, silicon chips and (cloud storage) ****************************** (for anyone wanting to store data.
) *************** (But thetechnology is not dead yet – you can buy cheap LTO-7 tapes and get 9TB of native storage (30. 5TB compressed) once they are reformatted to M8, such as the Quantum
LTO-7 tape for as little as $ (************************************************************************.******* With an uncompressed capacity of 9TB, this translates into a per TB cost of $ 6. 57, about 22 x less than the***************************** (cheapest SSD) on the market and 1/4 the price of the**************************************************************** (TB Seagate Exos X) ************************************************************************ () ********************************, currently the most affordable hard disk drive on the market on a per TB basis.
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There’s something else that tape provides that no other storage medium currently offers by default; on-the-fly, transparent compression which can go up to 2.5: 1; although this works best on text files rather than on multimedia ones, as they are already heavily compressed.
As for transfer speeds, they can reach (MBps) That’s a staggering 1. 14 TB per hour) which is plenty fast, slower than the (******************************* (PNY Pro Elite) which tops 338 MBps.
Even though tape has a retro feeling to it, it is still the preferred, most widely used archiving medium thanks partly to a – year archival life and lifetime warranty on almost all tapes on sale.
Just bear in mind that the price above doesn’t take into consideration the price of an LTO drive, which can cost around $ 2, (eg (t) **************************************************************his Quantum LTO-7 drive) for a bare internal drive so that it only makes sense to get this if you plan any capacity above 600 TB.
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