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Three Major Reasons Tape Storage Became Famous

Author: Adams Thompson
by Adams Thompson
Posted: Apr 03, 2016

It is a known thing now that organizations that have been longing for a perfect solution of storage weren’t met by the shiny digi and latest storage devices. This made the business to have their interest of inclination towards the oldie Goldie tape storage. Tape storage are the reason now business has a peace of mind towards their data and they can fully rely on it. It was the time when the business were in a great hassle looking for the release and trying to avoid the problem. But this wasn’t the solution; in fact, avoiding the problem is never the solution to the problem.

All the storage media were serving the purpose of storage, but storing the data was just the apparent need. This need was way more detailed than this. It was not quite fulfilled by the latest tech storage. Then came the tape storage with the perfect solution to the problem letting business take a chance of relief from the loss that was intern causing humongous losses and late or uncertain decision making. Tape technology doesn’t come for nothing. It has a major benefit and a competitive advantage over the other storage media that made it stand out with the fact that it was an old fashioned and technology from the past that took over the new technology.

IBM 3590 enterprise tape cartridge part # 05h4434 is one of the most outstanding tape storage. Three of the most outstanding benefits that took the tape storage right from the hole of the past to the bright shine of the present are discussed. First the tape storage proves to be an excellent storage because it provides an excellently fast transfer speed. This means that when recording data you need not to wait so long lasting your time and energy in recording data and even the data retrieval speed is so fast that you can have the data quickly whenever you want. Second major benefit is the one that was one of the reasons that made the tape storage to stand out proud, it is the reliability. Reliability was one of the greatest problems that was making all the new technology not fulfilling the needs of the business.

The reliability makes sure that the data that you save remains as it is when you access after a long gap of time. So tape storage made sure that when you have all the data recorded onto the tape with an ample amount of storage capacity of 10GB native and 20GB of compressed format of data. The tape storage is known for its reliability because it keeps your data as it is like you saved even if you access it after decades. It is so because, like other tape storage viruses and other errors don’t strike it and data is not destroyed because of the virus attack which was one of the main problems with the latest technology losing all the data in just a nick of time. The last and the third major benefit of the tape technology is the extension of its reliability concept, it is that tape technology doesn’t require power to have data all saved. Once the data is saved, it remains safe into the storage even if the tape is not connected to the power. Even hackers are unable to hack it or may take years doing so.

About the Author

Adams Thompson is an IT Expert, who is completely indulged and devoted in IT Business, and task oriented marketing specialist in WestendITStore.com.

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