▲ 265 ▼ Fujifilm pours $64 million into magnetic tape production as AI storage demand surges (www.techspot.com) submitted 1 week ago by FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 child) Because you need a backup. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] CameronDev@programming.dev 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 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. permalink fedilink source parent