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Hopefully like the tapes there will be a giant leap in access speed to go along with it. If all they have done is make current 500GB/1TB tapes 8 to 16 times longer, it won't help as much as you might first think.]]>May 17th 2006 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/
"Only if it comes with the quality haircut."
- Gotta love that one, I have a thing for the 60's :)]]>May 17th 2006 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 17th 2006 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 17th 2006 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 17th 2006 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 17th 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/
And #1's comment wins the internet.]]>May 17th 2006 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 17th 2006 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 17th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 18th 2006 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 18th 2006 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/May 18th 2006 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/
Do you have any idea how many lines of text that is!?!

10 Terabytes = All the material in the U.S. Library of Congress

2 Petabytes (2048 Terabytes) = All U.S. academic research libraries

5,000 Petabytes (5 Exabytes) = All words ever spoken by human beings... ever... that's every single thing anyone has ever said EVER!

5 Exabytes is the largest amount that anyone could ever dream of storing. Even all the data NASA collects from the Earth Orbiting System (EOS) is only ~300TB. (And that's an unbelievabled amount of data... one that's so large a research firm couldn't dream of matching the data collected by EOS.

Alright... ending spasm... now.]]>May 19th 2006 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/17/ibm-fujitsu-developing-8-terabyte-magnetic-tape-cartridges/Nov 26th 2008 6:50AM