Posts Tagged ‘lto5’
Tape – “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
(With apologies to Mark Twain)
The release of LTO5 by Quantum Corporation brings 1.5TB native/3TB compressed tape to the market, and it is a sure fire bet that IBM and HP will shortly follow with their own offerings, which means that for the past 20 years or so, a technology many said was going the way of the Dodo, has managed to more than keep pace with competing technologies, and seen quite a few off (remember how optical disk was the future of storage back in the late 1980′s?).





