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Fujifilm pours $64 million into magnetic tape production as AI storage demand surges (www.techspot.com)
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Needless to say, Fujifilm is citing generative AI and other AI-related services as major drivers behind the growing demand for magnetic tape

LTO-10 tapes were released earlier this year, providing a native capacity of 40 terabytes.

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[–] -1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The ship has sailed on the front. But even if its for the corpus of training data, surely that can't be stored on tape, the access time would be way too slow.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    It’s purpose is archival, not access. Tape density, cost, and reliability is much better than other mediums for that purpose.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Thats exactly my point, why bother archiving when you need it accessible for training? Surely they would be putting the training data on a faster medium.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Because you need a backup.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    True in general, but I am not convinced its true for OpenAI or anthropic.

    Their training data is probably already replicated across multiple datacenters, so tape archiving is less critical. And if tape archiving is critical, then surely they already have sufficient backups already right? And its not like the organic content of the internet is growing anymore, so there isn't going to be an explosion of new organic data they need to store.

    So I don't buy that they need this. I think this is fujifilm trying to get in on the bubble, and nothing more.

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