{"id":659,"date":"2013-11-30T17:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2013\/11\/30\/magnetic_tape_drives_are_back_in_style\/"},"modified":"2013-11-30T17:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:40:34","slug":"magnetic_tape_drives_are_back_in_style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Tape Drives Are Back In Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/Figure_3_RTCC.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/technology-quarterly\/21590758-information-storage-60-year-old-technology-offers-solution-modern\">Magnetic tape to the rescue<\/a>, Economist<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;The need for mass storage is reviving a technology which, only a few years ago, seemed destined for the scrapheap: magnetic tape. Tape is the oldest computer storage medium still in use. It was first put to work on a UNIVAC computer in 1951. But although tape sales have been falling since 2008 and dropped by 14% in 2012, according to the Santa Clara Consulting Group, tape&#8217;s decline has now gone into reverse: sales grew by 1% in the last quarter of 2012 and a 3% rise is expected this year. Alberto Pace, head of data and storage at CERN, says that tape has four advantages over hard disks for the long-term preservation of data. The first is speed. Although it takes about 40 seconds for an archive robot to select the right tape and put it in a reader, once it has loaded, extracting data from that tape is about four times as fast as reading from a hard disk.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic tape to the rescue, Economist &#8220;The need for mass storage is reviving a technology which, only a few years ago, seemed destined for the scrapheap: magnetic tape. Tape is the oldest computer storage medium still in use. It was first put to work on a UNIVAC computer in 1951. But although tape sales have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnetic Tape Drives Are Back In Style&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tapes-and-drives","category-technoarchaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}