WEKA's Single-Rack Exabyte Flash Validates Tape's Cold Archive Role
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A single rack holding an exabyte of flash is an impressive engineering milestone — and a useful reminder of where the storage tiers a...
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Exabyte Flash Racks Arrive — Tape's $/TB Advantage Has Never Been Clearer
MagStor Take Packing an exabyte of flash into a single rack is a genuine engineering milestone. But at flash $/TB, that rack carries a price tag t... -
LTO-10 Media Now Shipping From Fujifilm and Sony in Two Capacities
MagStor Take LTO-10 media hitting the market in two distinct cartridge grades is not a footnote — it is a procurement decision. The 30 TB standard... -
LTO Tape Hits Record 152.9 EB Shipped as Data Growth Accelerates
MagStor Take A record 152.9 exabytes in a single year is the market casting a very clear vote — not on speculation, but on deployed infrastructure... -
WEKA's WEKApod 3 claims a single-rack exabyte as NeuralMesh 6 adds multi-tenancy
MagStor Take When a flash vendor needs a headline number, it reaches for "exabyte" — but exabytes on NVMe come with a power bill and a capital cos... -
LTO tape shipments hit a record 152.9 exabytes in 2023
MagStor Take Record shipment numbers settle the debate: tape is not winding down, it is scaling up. The LTO Program's 2023 full-year figures — rep... -
AMD and IBM deepen their hybrid quantum-classical computing push
MagStor Take Hyperscaler-grade AI compute partnerships are a useful reminder that the training-data storage problem is structural — not a temporar... -
Cloud failures erased ~50 million songs — the archival case for tape
MagStor Take When three separate cloud platforms shut down and took irreplaceable media assets with them, the expert preservation community stoppe...