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.

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      And if something dies, good luck on getting replacements lol.

      I’d love tape but >5k for a drive is a bit outside my budget.

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        Yeah, the longevity for tape backups feels entirely theoretical when the tape drives themselves are out of production, so you could end up with a perfect tape, and nothing can read it…

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          I mean…The parts are probably easy enough to remanufacture.
          IF you have the budget of an AWS or Azure.

          For us? Yep. Sadly.