Disk drives are reaching their limits, but magnetic tape just gets better and better
  • RobotToaster
    English
    3·
    11 months ago

    I really wish they made data tapes the size of normal compact audio cassettes using modern technology.

    • Droechai@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      A cassette sized backup would be so easy to store, with a big caveat on how much the drive itself would cost

    • JackbyDev@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Who knows, we may yet see them. I couldn’t find the exact article or video but it was saying how there’s a lot of R&D that can still go into tape drives to make storage more dense. We may yet see SSD sized tape drives!