Imation will soon be making the industry’s first terabyte-plus raw capacity tape, in the LTO-5 format, with delivery in early 2010. However are tape formats drinking in the “last chance saloon”?
The Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium has three technology-providing members: HP, IBM and Quantum and these licensed manufacturers continue to supply tape media and build drives. External drive data recovery when performed on these tapes i also extremely tough.
Archive for December, 2009
Will the new tape formats be the last generation?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009How reliable are the new generation multi terabyte hard disk drives?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009As we come to the end of the year, 2010 is going to be the age of multi-terabyte storage, with many manufacturers introducing 2TB hard drives. But how reliable will they be?
A new manufacturing process that will put 640GB on a single HDD platter, has allowed manufacturers to dramatically increase storage capacities drastically. As the 3.5-inch drives used in desktop PCs typically hold four or five platters, that suggests a whopping 3.2TB hard disk space of storage on a single drive. Looking at the likely timing, the new manufacturing technology could put the giant drives in shops as early as February next year.
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