Spectra Logic's six-times-faster tape robot

Spectra Logic's High Performance Transporter is a six-times-faster tape cartridge-transfer robot that can drop tape slot-to-drive transfer time from six to 1.5 seconds. When a tape library receives a request to access a file on a stored tape drive, then micro-millisecond data access times of SSDs and disk get forgotten about. …

[John Smith 19]

exciting news for the team at GCHQ

Who will now be able to pull up your lifetimes browsing so much faster.

Because that' s seems to be the last group left who need that much data storage that cost really matters.

For the rest of us

Not so much.

[pasmith50]

Re: exciting news for the team at GCHQ

In genomics we have quite a rapidly growing data storage challenge. With the cost of generating the data falling the cost of storing it becomes more and more important. Tape definitely has a play there and if we can get the data back sooner then we can move more of it off disk.

[John Smith 19]

In genomics we have quite a rapidly growing data storage challenge.

I was wondering who really needed this technology, outside of state agencies spying on their own populations.

That actually sounds like a beneficial use for this technology.

[EMC is the Best <3]

wowww yayyy Next tape innovation will be a tape flap that flips up in half the time. And a lighter plastic spool that rewinds and fast fowards 5% more quickly. Great job spectra but your company still sucks and hasn't innovated since a a a AIT.