Posted on 12/26/2020 6:25:28 AM PST by blam
The world currently produces 2.5 quintillion bytes of data daily due to the internet of things, the emergence of 4K/8K videos, and the proliferation of artificial intelligence and automation. By 2025, worldwide data could soar to 175 zettabytes, representing 61% annual growth.
Thanks to the virus pandemic, the rapid digitization of the economy sparking a massive push in remote working among corporations have also resulted in a massive increase in data storage.
So, where is all this data being stored?
More than 500 hyperscale data centers are scattered across the world, storing an estimated 547 exabytes with an estimated 151 facilities currently under development.
According to IBM, there is only “one technology can handle that the massive growth of digital data, keep it protected from cybercrime attacks and is archiving data for some of the largest hyperscale data centers in the world is a technology more than 60 years old – magnetic tape.”
More than a decade ago, IBM partnered with Fujifilm to advance the technology in magnetic tape. What they developed is a new tape that can store huge amounts of critical data.
The new tape can achieve a storage capacity of 317 gigabytes per square inch, which means a single tape is capable of storing 580 terabytes of data.
Putting 580 terabytes into perspective for readers, it’s “equivalent to 786,977 CDs stacked 944 meters high, which is taller than Burj Kalifa, the world’s tallest building. That’s a colossal amount of data! All fitting on a tape cartridge on the palm of your hand,” said IBM.
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Odd story.
I left some 8 packs of batteries near a magnet in my drawer by accident.
They were all dead when I tried to use them some time later.
I was too lazy to look up why.
But it sucked :)
I really don’t understand IBM’s math. You would think that a tape with 317 GB (that’s about a third of a terabyte) per square inch, at 1255 meters (that’s 50,000 inches) long would store a lot more than 580 terabytes. If it were 1 inch wide that would be about 17,000 TB.
To be “only” 580 TB the tape would have to be .03 inches wide. Wouldn’t it snap?
As an early Data Processing professional ( IT Director ) The old tape drives and tape were very vulnerable to environment conditions and retrieving data and sorting was time consuming. However, it would seem that a cartridge would eliminate many of the original issues. However, if you need to get to the end of the tape, that will take some time. It is all relative though.
“Want to bet that the nsa has had thus for years?”
In the early days the Agency helped drive the development of data storage. Today maybe not so much.
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You stole my idea. Canceling trip to the patent office. :(
This is very bad news for freedom. 5G especially must be stopped and taken out to keep from accelerating the current monitoring and control abuses.
TECH: Sorry, but your tape has stretched.
The only good thing about tape was the old HPUX 'ftio' utility. :) (I still love and use 'cpio')
So we’re going back to floppy disks?
“Tape rules in data center backup and archival. Always has. “
I started out on an IBM model 50 with the reel tapes. I can’t believe what they have now. I remember about 10 years ago some of the Fed departments that came to our facility to test STILL used reel to reel.
In practice, the odds of successfully retrieving something from super high density tape seem to run about 50%. They've pushed it too far.
Anther way to control information and history
Once everything is moved to some form of digital or virtual storage and the hard copies are made unavailable all access to information will be controlled by those who manufacture and/or control the equipment to retrieve and convert the data.
The way ballot information is now controlled and manipulated by the Dominion voting machines and software.
What good is an 8-track music tape or a Beta video tape to someone without the equipment to read the data on the tapes?
What good are all the files people stored on old style 5” floppy discs without a device that can read the discs?
Even worse - what about information stored in the “Cloud”?
It’s not yours anymore - it’s “Theirs”.
For now they may let you access it but that access is not under your control.
At any moment, by intention or accident, you can be denied access to your own information.
Great story!
And how much is useful, ....................
.1%, but you don’t know WHICH .1%
Know WHICH is were wisdom comes into play.................
Me too. I hated that a tape would work fine on one machine but the machine next to it couldn't read it at all. Luckily, I didn't have to use them a lot.
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