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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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[+] 2 points 6 days ago (12 children)
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  • [–] 28 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Comeback? Tapes never went away. Most long term cold storage offerings are backed by tape

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (9 children)

    cloud backup for anything actually important is just so damn silly

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (8 children)

    It has it's uses.
    But as any backup solution: Not a singular.
    A proper backup concept has at least 3 copies on at least 2 different medias (types or amount matters only slightly) and one is not at the location of the original.

    Veeam (a backup vendor) has expanded on it with 3-2-1-1-0.
    1 = 1 Backup target is an immutable technology
    0 = 0 errors on the backup (which expects a validation)

    And I honestly like the idea.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (7 children)

    yea no thx

    especially if im paying for it

    ot that im surprised companies would get lazy/cheap

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

    You pay either way.
    Up front or over a span of time..
    What matters is what you need from your storage.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    no i mean i would not pay for cloud storage for important stuff

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (4 children)

    Again: It depends.

    I would use it as a storage provider on which I would put an encrypted veracrypt drive (or whatevee is the good stuff).
    Or as an off-site storage provider for my backup.

    As a single atorage site? Nah. Too expensive for my home needs.
    For a business? If you can't afford to drop 1200€ for 3x 4TB SSDs to bring your data backups off-site? Pretty good offering.
    And the immutability is a plus as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (3 children)

    and like i said please tell me what said companies are

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (2 children)

    Our clients use S3 as an offsite storage. About 2-3TB (deduplicated is possible) in storage usually.
    Client is small and medium doctor offices.

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