+17
The roadmap for LTO tape has been extended up to generation 14 which is projected to store up to 576TB of uncompressed data and a unbelievable amount of 1440TB of compressed data on one tape.
It will be interesting to see if this can be realized and the capacity be doubled with each of the coming generations...
See more here:
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+6
offsite tapes are all well and good ā¦..but how many people have either a) tested restores or b) actually had to restore in anger, 2-3 years down the line?
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I have a client that I deployed tape to this summer.Ā Next week Iām going to be replacing their SAN (and upgraded their NASās that are used as Veeam Repoās), but before we pull out the old SAN, they had this crazy/not so crazy idea to do a full restore of all VMās from the tape to the old SAN to verify all is well.Ā Ā
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Geez...I deployed a Gen7 drive using Gen6 tapes earlier this year.Ā I donāt have clients with anything NEAR gen 14.Ā My client with the largest dataset is going to be near the 10/11 area, but theyāre not needing to do tape.
+9
sounds like a good blog post in the making
+10
offsite tapes are all well and good ā¦..but how many people have either a) tested restores or b) actually had to restore in anger, 2-3 years down the line?
100% Craig. Everyone has a story of tape letting them down.
Sometime I should tell everyone the 5 reasons I hate tape.
+9
offsite tapes are all well and good ā¦..but how many people have either a) tested restores or b) actually had to restore in anger, 2-3 years down the line?
+17
Tape will never die.
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+10
Tape will never die.
+17
Yes, moving from LTO-6 to LTO-9 is the next step at two customers of mine, too š
With this their tape libraries are still sufficient and have not to be extended with more frames for a longer time...
Tapes are still (and will be for a long time) a pretty solid solution against some threats.. and nearly the only solution for āreal offsiteā.
I think the roadmap is more or less āsubject to be changedā because LTO9 was also planed with 24TB capacity and now there is a compromise between costs and capacity; this can happenĀ again.
We are now moving to LTO9 (from 6) and I am locking forward to it.
+17
Over 1PB per tapeā¦ thatās absolutely insane! Itās a shame thereās no years stamped against this roadmap, but itās exciting to see the life we still have left in tape! People have well over a decade to keep telling us tape is gonna die, and we have this roadmap to reply with!
People are telling tape is dead for 30 years or more nowā¦ the same with mainframesā¦
There will be still usecases for this for a long time.Ā It's not useful everywhere and not as the only storage without disk and objectā¦ š
+20
Over 1PB per tapeā¦ thatās absolutely insane! Itās a shame thereās no years stamped against this roadmap, but itās exciting to see the life we still have left in tape! People have well over a decade to keep telling us tape is gonna die, and we have this roadmap to reply with!
+20
Wow Gen14. Sheesh hope I get the chance to use it before I retire. š¤£
š Gen14 will takeā¦. no idea - 10 - 12 years. It took from 2010 to 2021 from Generation 5 to Generation 9...
Well if it takes 12 I will have 5 years to play with it. š
+17
Wow Gen14. Sheesh hope I get the chance to use it before I retire. š¤£
š Gen14 will takeā¦. no idea - 10 - 12 years. It took from 2010 to 2021 from Generation 5 to Generation 9...
+20
Wow Gen14. Sheesh hope I get the chance to use it before I retire. š¤£
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