Comment by cavisne

5 days ago

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/20140047261

Is tape even cost competitive anymore? The market would be tiny.

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topspin  5 days ago

One way to know is to see if new tape products exist, indicating ongoing development. As of May, 2025, LTO-10 is available, offering 30TB/75TB (raw/compressed) storage per cartridge. Street price is a bit under $300 each. Two manufacturers are extant: Fujifilm and IBM.

hinkley  5 days ago

It's gone in cycles for as long as I recall and older devs around 2010 said it had been going on for as long as they could recall.