Tag Archives: Storage density

Tape vs. Disk, the saga continues

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ray

Was on a call late last month where Oracle introduced their latest generation T1000C tape system (media and drive) holding 5TB native (uncompressed) capacity. In the last 6 months I have been hearing about the coming of a 3TB SATA … Continue reading →

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Tape v Disk v SSD v RAM

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Ray

There was a time not long ago when the title of this post wouldn’t have included SSD. But, with the history of the last couple of years, SSD has earned its right to be included. A couple of years back … Continue reading →

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