A Story About The Storage

Posted By: Dimitar A. September 27, 2006

I’ve found very good article about storage today in ServerPipeline. It is titled “Long-Term Storage Solutions”.

The author looks at diffrent types of storage – from acid-free paper and microforms through removable hard drive, to optical disk.

“Tape has been going strong for 50 years. Disk vendors keep trying to write the obituary, yet tape capacities continue to increase. In the past few months, vendors have boosted native capacity to 800 GB per tape, and in May, IBM researchers announced that they’ve managed to cram a whopping 6.67 gigabits per square inch on an experimental tape formulation by FujiFilm.” says Howard Marks in his article.

He also says that “optical formats have a history of long-term data stability but don’t have the density of tape”.

Enjoy the article here.

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Dimitar A.
Dimitar is founder of the global Cloud & Infrastructure Hosting provider HostColor.com & European Cloud IaaS company RAX. He has two Decades-long experience in the web hosting industry and in building and managing Cloud computing infrastructure and IT ecosystems. Dimitar is also political scientist who has published books "The New American State" and "The New Polity". "The New American State" is one of the best current political books. It is focused on the change of the American political process. It offers a perspective on how the fourth industrial revolution, also called the Digital Revolution and Industry 4.0, marks the beginning of an era of deterritorialization.