In fact, tape's unique combination of scalability, cost-efficiency, and cyber resilience makes it a valuable component for ...

Tape is cheaper than disk. Even with all the advancements in deduplication – which is primarily used on disk – tape is still cheaper per gigabyte than tape for a few reasons.

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One alternative is to back up data on disk, which is inherently faster than tape. Some users are taking an extra step by adding tape to the mix, creating disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup systems.

As I mentioned last week, the most popular hard disk back-up system is called streaming tape. It`s magnetic tape, in a cassette, that fits into a special recorder and makes a copy of everything on ...

Not only is tape now relatively expensive compared with disk, it is also quite slow compared with hard disk storage. With hard drives now available in 500-Gbyte capacities, it can take forever to ...

The first all digital NLE was introduced in 1983, as the last 2-inch quad video tape machine was shown, and one year after the first sale of original Betacam-format VTR. Abekas would soon unveil an ...

“Tape capacity is limited only by available shelf space, but disk backup requires no interaction.” Businesses generally turn to one of three options to replace tape backup: Disaster Recovery as a ...

The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.

Tapes are able to accommodate large files for which disk storage is impractical. In addition, CMS Version 6 and Version 7 SAS files that are in tape format can be read by SAS under OS/390 and VSE ...

According to EMC, the disk systems are between 30 and 60pc faster than competing tape libraries, with recovery time said to be 90pc quicker. “It has the same type of speed levels as storage on a ...

With backup and retrieval speeds that run 10 times faster than they do for tape, disk is quickly winning favor as the preferred medium for backing up primary storage. “Back-up to disk, archive ...