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Tape Drives: What the Future Holds
Conclusions
- We live in "interesting" times wrt tape drives
- Conservative approach would be to adopt DDS-4
- Do we need the increased speed? Or Capacity?
- Lower drive costs => we can afford to experiment
- ... but watch for higher per-unit media costs
- Data Interchange vs. Backup; industry targets latter, we need both.