Since the dawn of the digital computer age, long-term data storage and backup have been the province of a single primary medium: magnetic tape.

虚拟磁带自数字计算机时代曙光初现，数据的长期储存和备份就一直是由磁带这个单一的重要介质担纲。

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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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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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