Cassette Futurism@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 year ago

Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape

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Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape

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Cassette Futurism@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 year ago

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Disk drives are reaching their limits, but magnetic tape just gets better and better

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A cassette sized backup would be so easy to store, with a big caveat on how much the drive itself would cost

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