Reply to post: Re: 15 years?

IBM claims new areal density record with 220TB tape tech

ibmzrl

Re: 15 years?

Actually the wait is due to you the user. We need to make the tape backwards compatible for two generations and if you jump from 10 TB to 220 TB this isn't possible. The technology from the latest demo will trickle out to make pieces at a time.

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