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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Figure 1 in the accompanying power point file (from the April 2011 Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, Coughlin Associates, www.tomcoughlin.com) shows historical quarterly HDD average sales prices (ASPs) from Q4 1998 through Q1 2011.

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