Extraordinary 580TB tapes could help accelerate demise of hard disk drives Tape

IBM researchers and Fujifilm have teamed together to release a tape prototype with a capacity of 580TB (or 0.58PB). That’s the equivalent of nearly six of the biggest SSDs in the world (the Nimbus Data 100TB) or 29 Seagate Exos+ 20TB hard disk drives. More importantly perhaps, it is more than 32x the current LTO-9 […]