Tale of the Tape: Musings on IBM’s 35TB Tape Announcement
26. Jan, 2010 
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A recent tweet by Chris Mellor from The Register caught my eye. He highlighted IBM’s recent development of a 35TB tape. Here are four articles on the topic:
A blog post by Robin Harris at ZDnet
My thoughts
It is interesting to see IBM/Fuji driving tape development. With this announcement they have increased native tape capacity over 21x from LTO-5, the newest LTO offering. The dramatic density improvement will drive a continued decrease specification-based $/GB. However it also raises some new questions:
Performance
