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“ Tape is still the king of long term data storage ”
DAVID BARKER FOUNDER & CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER , 4D DATA CENTRES
drives , with hot data moving to solid-state drives .” Now , however , with archival data predicted to represent as much as 80 % of all captured data worldwide by 2025 , figuring out how to meet that demand , even with hyper-dense storage mediums like tape , “ presents the next great storage challenge .”
Right now , though , if you ask David Barker , Founder and Chief Technology Officer at 4D Data Centres , “ Tape is still the king of long term data storage , especially if reliability of that data years down the line is your top priority and immediate access isn ’ t required .” We ’ ve written before at Data Centre Magazine about the unexpected renaissance of tape storage - driven by its low cost , high storage volume , and the ease with which you can secure it against attacks . “ Tape often gets overlooked as an old technology which has been surpassed by non-volatile memory such as SSD or even “ the cloud ” but if you want a medium that is very data dense ( you can storage a lot of data in a physically small space ), relatively quick ( but not instant ) to retrieve data from , doesn ’ t require any power to maintain the data and is incredibly reliable
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