The components for PC are constantly evolving and that has been demonstrated with the new seagate project with PCIe interface and NVME protocol. It also works on a novel Digital Western technology and Cerabyte with which it is planned to reach 1,000,000,000 TB, so the future with respect to hard drives is promising.
Before the SSD and HDD, the audio cassettes that were used during the beginnings of the computer to save data or light programs, were forgotten. Being popular between the 70s and 80swith microororders such as the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64, they disappeared from attention when the rapid and rapid hard -capacity disks or more capacity arrived.
However, although decades have passed since that era, however strange they are, they continue to be used and sent Millions Terabytes through this format in recent years thanks Los Lto created for companies that require mass storage.
Almost 153 million terabytes were used on magnetic tape for 2023
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Magnetic tapes have been used for 146 years For various functions in specific machines. For the 1970s, these were incorporated into the cassettes with the aim of reproducing music in different devices, but the 660 kB that granted those who had a capacity of 90 minutes were also used, for example.
Obviously, this amount is very little for what large companies and even averages of the technology industry require. Now smartphones bring up to 512 GB or even more, something that exceeds previous formats.
Although there are also high -capacity pendrives, external hard drives and CDs, still the aforementioned tapes are still used, and much more than he imagined.
According to what Ultium Lto officially reports, during the last quarter of 2023, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation companies revealed that there were an increase of 3.14% in terms of the use of LTO cartridgeswhich indicates that it is a large increase compared to 2022.
More specifically, were 153 exabytes (EB) of storage through this format which was used in several parts of the world. This is equivalent to 153 million terabytes (TB) or 153,000 petabytes (PB).
«The LTO tape will remain as a critical component of storage architectures throughout the company, especially as tape technology continues to improve to manage even greater volumes and more intensive work loads» – Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates.
Each of these products that have developed They have the ability to carry up to 18 TB And they are recommended to maintain long-term data, with “speeds of up to 400 MB/s (native) and 1000 MB/s (tablet)” in the LOT-5. From what is shown in the report, for generation 14 they plan to evolve the format until it has a capacity of 1.4 PB (1,400 TB).
Also considering that they are cheaper, they are positioned as an ideal option for the use of large companies that must support high amounts of files and keep a support over time.
While these tapes are categorized as fragile and slow with respect to other storage methods, they remain viable and their low cost make them more and more requested.
SSD and HDD will stop using LTO cartridges?
This does not mean that the other options will be replaced, since Lto cartridges are directed for a specific industry sector. For example, in data centers, scientific research teams, media, audiovisual content and others like that.
HDD continues to lead the list with 1,000 EB used in 2023, for its price and the high space capacity they can contribute. As for the SSD, although is less used because it is more expensiveis the most recommended format for computers, consoles and other equipment due to their speed and efficiency.
In fact, in these approximately 780 EB were sent in that same year and the amount continues to rise. Therefore, there is room for each of these hard drives in the future, although it is impressive that after decades, the magnetic tapes remain relevant today with the recent advances.
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