{"id":1808,"date":"2010-01-23T07:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2010-01-23T07:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:02:53","slug":"ibm-and-the-case-of-the-crazy-dense-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/ibm-and-the-case-of-the-crazy-dense-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM and the case of the crazy-dense tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/86BDxS\">IBM have come up with a tape format<\/a> which is so dense that it&#8217;ll fit about 35TB of uncompressed data on it.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this is a &#8220;just in the lab&#8221; technology and it&#8217;s going to be a while away from hitting the market. It remains, however, a remarkable feat &#8211; by comparison LTO-4 manages a &#8220;measly&#8221; 800 GB of uncompressed data, and the soon to be released LTO-5 manages 1.6TB of uncompressed data.<\/p>\n<p>The critical question of course will remain \u2013\u00a0how fast will you have to pump data at this beast in order to get it streaming? I&#8217;m guessing it will be a seriously high speed. As we continue to see tape getting faster and faster, I&#8217;ll continue to say: this is the decade where <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/direct-to-tape-is-dead-long-live-tape\/\">direct to tape backup models will die, long live tape<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release, IBM have come up with a tape format which is so dense that it&#8217;ll fit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[195,311,980],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-general-technology","tag-capacity","tag-density","tag-tape"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}