Ah yes Enterprise great cold storage solutions : https://www.techpowerup.com/269275/fujifilm-points-to-400-tb-tape-drives-in-the-future
Single 400TB Tape Drive by 2032/33, do you think they will deliver on that goal ? You just need two 400TB and one 200TB Tape Drives and you've got yourself a Petabyte of Storage in your hands, pretty cool amiright ?
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For a data hoarder like me it's a dream come true
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The tracking times...
THEY WILL BE GLORIOUS!
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These are used in sets of thousands is specialized clean room enclosures where robot arms move them to and from their storage shelf to a reader head where it plugs in the drive to read/write to it, one of these solutions from such companies like IBM or Fujitsu costs multi millions of dollars. But as with everything this upcoming technology will too once trickle down into Consumer great Tape Drives one day. Man imagine the day where you can hold either a M.2 or 2,5" SSD in your palm that has multiple Petabytes on it.
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