IBM breaks tape storage record getting 330 terabytes onto a single cartridge

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Who said tape was (completely) dead?

IBM has smashed its own own tape data storage record by storing as much as 330TB on a single cartridge - smashing its own record of 220TB, set just over two years ago.  What this means is that t...

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