Every Two Years...
The IT industry has been predicting the death of tape every two years for the last 50 years. But because tape offers characteristics that are not duplicated by any other storage media, it has survived. Some of these characteristics are: 1) Continues to be relatively cheap, 2) Movable from one (broken) machine to another (working) machine, 3) Easily movable offsite, 4) No RAID rebuild delay, which can be MUCH longer than recovery from tape, 5) Can easily and provably be made non re-writable, 6) Can be made archivally (30+ years) permanent . I like tape.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
