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posted by martyb on Thursday October 26 2017, @09:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-to-use-at-home? dept.

The Linear Tape-Open standard will be extended by another two generations, increasing raw/uncompressed capacity from LTO-8's 12 TB to 192 TB on an LTO-12 tape:

The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Quantum, announced the specifications of the latest LTO Ultrium format, generation 8, which is now available for licensing by media manufacturers.

The LTO Program also released a new LTO technology roadmap, detailing specifications up to twelve (12) generations of tape technology, extending the total capacity of data held on one LTO Ultrium generation 12 tape cartridge to 480TB – an increase of 32 times the capacity of current-generation 7 cartridges.

The new LTO generation 8 specifications are designed to double the tape cartridge capacity from the previous LTO generation 7, with customers now being able to store up to 30TB per cartridge when compressed. In an effort to push the innovation boundaries of tape technology going forward, the current LTO format required a recording technology transition that supports capacity growth for future LTO generations. To address this technological shift and maintain affordability in times of extreme data growth, the latest LTO generation 8 specifications are intended to be only backwards compatible with LTO generation 7 cartridges.

Despite records like 220-330 TB uncompressed in the laboratory, these 100+ TB capacities won't be available for a while:

[Spectra Logic's] CEO and founder, Nathan Thompson, said: "Spectra foresees the availability of LTO-9 at 24TB per tape cartridge in two years; LTO-10 at 48TB in four years; LTO-11 at 96TB in six or seven years; and LTO-12 at 190+TB in eight to nine years. I firmly believe that no other commercial data storage technology available now or on the horizon, will keep pace with or fulfill the world's increasing demand for cost-effective, long-term data storage like tape technology."

Also at IT Jungle.

Previously: IBM and FUJIFILM Create Equivalent of 220 TB Tape Cartridge
LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady
IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record (330 TB)


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Snotnose on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:12PM (1 child)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Thursday October 26 2017, @11:12PM (#588044)

    back in '90 or so, I had some 30 Sun workstations to backup on a single cassette tape. I could not get management to sign off on a better backup solution, so I made my own. Made daily incremental backups that I kept in my cube. Made weekly incremental backups, that I kept off site (e.g. my bookshelf at home). Made monthly full backups that I kept offsite.

    Got laid off. About a month later got a call from a co-worker. "Um, we deleted some important stuff. Do you have a backup?". Me, looking at 10-15 tapes in my bookcase, "um, no. Why? Didn't you continue my documented backup strategy after I got laid off?".

    She knew I had the tapes, I knew she knew, but she also knew that outside of a warrant they were never gonna see those backups.

    Oh, why did I get laid off? Cuz I couldn't keep to a schedule. I was a part time sysadmin, full time developer. When someone's workstation went sideways I was responsible for fixing it, and the time it took was not built into my developer schedule. After a few months I realized this was a system designed to screw me, but didn't have the social/political skills to fix.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:03AM (#589854)

    And how to get them to put up torrents of what they backed up 10-30 years on when nobody would be able to prove it was them :)

    Wing Commander source code, Star Wars Galaxies Source Code, and a few dozen others have all gotten leaked, some by hackers, but many by disgruntled laid off personnel like yourself. Would be nice to see all those old backups make their way into the distributed historical archives know as the 'cloud' :)