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A collection of 6 issues

LTO-10’s 40TB Explained (Not Areal Density but material engineering this time)

The 40 TB LTO-10 variant uses a simple trick : add about 33% more tape to get about 33% more capacity much like the old 180 / 120 VHS tapes. By switching to an aramid film base, they were able to pack that extra tape without increaing the cartridge footprint

Your Media Safe Isn’t Truly a Media Safe Unless It’s Class 125

Not all ‘media safes’ are truly safe for media. check for Class 125 certification. Never buy a class 350 safe sold as a Media safe , it just wont protect your data in fire.

Solidigm D5-P5336 60TB Drive with QNAP

At Gitex this year, I encountered the world's largest SSD: a U.2 60TB Solidigm drive ( D5-P5336) . As a storage enthusiast, I was immediately fascinated, especially thinking about its potential in a QNAP NAS setup. The drive was sitting there unassumingly at the QNAP stand—yet it represented

HP Q2078A vs Q2078AN vs Q2078AL

Reader's Question (edited for clarity): I own an HP BB874A drive. What capacity will I get if I use an LTO-8 tape in it? And which is better: Q2078A or Q2078AN? Firstly, your BB874A is an LTO-7 drive, so you cannot use an LTO-8 tape with it. If

First Seagate HAMR 30TB drive unveiled as Mozaic 3+

If you're involved in the data industry, you likely caught wind of Seagate's recent announcement regarding their 30TB hard drives. While incremental capacity upgrades are commonplace, this one stands out as it marks the introduction of Seagate's innovative HAMR technology. Here's the

SSDs are more reliable than HDDs but you need to know more

Whenever there is discussion about SSDs versus HDDs, the focus seems to be on the higher IOPS, transfer rates, and lower power consumption of SSDs. We seldom discuss reliability. The absence of an industry consensus and a lack of published data (with the exception of Backblaze, which regularly shares insights

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