Fujifilm recently announced a significant new investment in its magnetic tape manufacturing operations. The Japanese giant will spend 10 billion yen, or around $64 million, to expand...

Needless to say, Fujifilm is citing generative AI and other AI-related services as major drivers behind the growing demand for magnetic tape

LTO-10 tapes were released earlier this year, providing a native capacity of 40 terabytes.

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 days ago

    In the industry I work in they disappeared long ago. Everything lives in the cloud. Last on-prem file servers were retired 10ish years ago.

    I don’t doubt they are still used but tapes are a thing of the past in a lot of IT departments.