IBM Research Develops 220TB Tape Drive

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Patrick

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Until someone decides to record a song off the radio over all those backups.
 
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Only in lab conditions but wow that is a lot of data on a tape drive.

FYI, IBM seems to be on about an 8 year delay from demonstration to production, so this will likely be reality in 2023. Wonder what the data transfer rate will be.