It would use magnetic-tape storage to replace punched data cards and printers to list the content of the tape.
In 2012 the LTO consortium introduced LTO 6, the 6th generation of LTO magnetic tape storage with raw storage capacities up to 2.5 TB.
This model is driving the growth of digital storage in data centers and thus the sale of hard disk drives, tape storage and flash memory used in enterprise storage tiers for these data centers.
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The LTFS LTO file system allows modern digital tape storage to be used like NAS file systems and simplifies the use of magnetic tape libraries and allows faster access to the content stored on them.
Companies have to choose between tape storage for archiving, cheap disk storage for everyday nonessential data like backups and video archives, better gear and software for the more important records such as essential e-mails and tax returns and very pricey faultless storage (with outages measured in seconds per year) for online transactions and stock exchanges.
Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.
It is generally believed that these cold storage data centers will use HDDs for primary storage rather than magnetic tape.
Also modern enterprise storage technology, whether it is flash memory, HDDs or magnetic tape include new power saving features to minimize the costs of storage.
Until recently the longest living storage media has been magnetic tape which may be kept as long at 30 years in the right environment with good odds that the data can be read back (assuming that the playback devices for that media still exist).
At the moment the mass-storage medium of choice is magnetic tape, which has the advantage of being cheap.
With total stored information growth exceeding 50% annual increases, high capacity, low cost storage technologies such as digital magnetic tape will continue to play an important role.
The company has controlled its costs by using three tiers of storage with hard disk drives and magnetic tape.
The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.
The LTO tape consortium (led by HP, IBM and Quantum) has a public tape product roadmap that will take magnetic tape technology out to about 13 TB of native (uncompressed) storage capacity.
For example, you may do initial backups to disk-based storage elsewhere in the data center, with further backups to tape.
It is clear that the total growth in storage demand will drive increased need for an ecosystem of storage technologies including flash memory and HDDs (and even magnetic tape).
While tape can require two to three days to access, RainStor can provide cheap storage that is just 20 to 30 percent slower than online operations access.
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Magnetic tape in professional recording has taken a nose dive while flash memory is the rising video storage format according the survey results.
Aside from magnetic tape (which generally has a slower time to access information) there is no more cost effective storage device to keep all this content on than HDDs.
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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The data storage industry has always been two-dimensional, racing to jam more bits onto the surfaces of magnetic tape, CDs or DVDs.
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