And You Thought Tape Drives Were Extinct – Fujifilm Packs 5TB Onto New Cartridges
Yes, the new T10000C drives hold up to 5TB each, owing to a new BaFe (Barium-Iron) coating that they apply “thinly and lubricously.” What that means I will leave to your imagination. They’re being made for Oracle, who uses them in their enterprise server and datacenter systems. Not stuff you see every day, but probably stuff you’re indirectly accessing more than you think.
At any rate, I just wanted to say hell yeah, love the magnetic tape. Keep it up, old-school storage guys.
[via Tech-On and Computing.co.uk]