Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from D…

- George Arthur Crump

Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape ma…

- George Arthur Crump

... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data mov…

- George Arthur Crump

Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our …

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Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time…

- George Arthur Crump

As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on t…

- George Arthur Crump