The page 2 topic surprised me. I thought that tape storage had gone the way of the dinosaur along with the room- sized mainframes of the '60s and '70s. Even cassette tape storage is slow and clunky. Why would anyone use it?
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In the TB+ to PB range tape
In the TB+ to PB range tape is still the fastest and most efficient way to store data. Granted the time to first byte is longer than disk but when the data is streaming off of the tape, the speed can outmatch that of disk. Where a delay in getting to the first byte of the data is appropriate, tape still wins
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