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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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[–] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I’d love consumerish tape storage for cold backups. I don’t really need random IO for archival stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Yeah, same, but every time I look at second hand stuff its crazy expensive, or completely obsolete.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

    And if something dies, good luck on getting replacements lol.

    I'd love tape but >5k for a drive is a bit outside my budget.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the longevity for tape backups feels entirely theoretical when the tape drives themselves are out of production, so you could end up with a perfect tape, and nothing can read it...

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