{"id":2339,"date":"2010-06-30T07:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2010-06-30T07:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:55:29","slug":"plenty-of-life-left-in-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/plenty-of-life-left-in-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of life left in tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With LTO-5 now just starting to go mainstream, it&#8217;s reassuring to see that the <a title=\"LTO Ultrium Roadmap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lto.org\/technology\/roadmap.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ultrium roadmap<\/a> has been expanded with another 2 generations, taking the mapping out to 8 generations in total. Linking to the roadmap image, we see:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"LTO Ultrium Roadmap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lto.org\/images\/Roadmap_April_2010large.png\" alt=\"LTO Ultrium Roadmap\" width=\"563\" height=\"242\" \/>(Image copyright the LTO Consortium.)<\/p>\n<p>LTO6 had been roadmapped a while ago, and presents slightly more than double the native capacity of LTO5 at 3.2TB. Generation 7 and 8 are currently mapped for doubling each previous generation. Interestingly there&#8217;s predictions of higher increases in tape streaming speed. One would hope these are managed carefully; it was a real relief to see LTO5 not do the conventional doubling of streaming speed, giving backup networks and infrastructure generational time to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that an investment in LTO5 today is an investment in a well roadmapped future that has been consistently delivered on thus far. Sure, the use of tape within backup is evolving \u2013 we&#8217;re going to see it moved more into the role of long-term backup storage in larger sites, and clones-only in smaller sites, but with a healthy roadmap ahead of us and LTO5 just now starting to ramp up into mainstream, tape continues to show it&#8217;ll be around for a while to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With LTO-5 now just starting to go mainstream, it&#8217;s reassuring to see that the Ultrium roadmap has been expanded with&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":[24],"tags":[195,552,839,1037],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit","tag-capacity","tag-lto","tag-roadmap","tag-ultrium"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-BJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","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=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}