SWCSA member Dave Graham just posted on tapeless backup technology. Its a good quick read, not as much fun as the Hardy Boys, but more likely to stir debates in the storage mosh pit.
My father in law is 87, still downhill skis and remembers how back in the 60's when he was working on disk drive technology, they thought tape was going to die and shrivel up before the end of the decade. (Maybe Nixon helped restore everybody's faith in the technology. )
Whatever, the stuff is hard to kill, like cockroaches and storage analysts. Disk R&D spending has probably exceeded tape a thousand times since then and tape hasn't bitten it yet. It surpasses all human (and storage analyst) understanding.
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