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.

  • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    yea no thx

    especially if im paying for it

    ot that im surprised companies would get lazy/cheap

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      13 days ago

      You pay either way.
      Up front or over a span of time…
      What matters is what you need from your storage.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Again: It depends.

          I would use it as a storage provider on which I would put an encrypted veracrypt drive (or whatevee is the good stuff).
          Or as an off-site storage provider for my backup.

          As a single atorage site? Nah. Too expensive for my home needs.
          For a business? If you can’t afford to drop 1200€ for 3x 4TB SSDs to bring your data backups off-site? Pretty good offering.
          And the immutability is a plus as well.