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.

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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.

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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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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.

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The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.

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