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Fujifilm's AI Storage Plan Brings Magnetic Tape Back to the Future
· New York time
Fujifilm plans to increase tape production fivefold as AI drives demand for data archiving. Magnetic tape remains useful because it can store large amounts of data at low cost and can be kept offline, according to Ars Technica. The plan is an expansion target, not a claim that output has already reached five times its current level. It reflects a storage market in which the newest computing systems still need places to keep large quantities of information for the long term. Tape is not a substitute for every kind of fast, readily accessible storage. Its appeal lies in a different job: holding archives economically, including copies that need not remain connected to a network. That offline quality can be useful for security. The contrast is hard to resist. An industry selling the most advanced digital tools is helping revive demand for a storage format with a long history. The future keeps arriving, then asking where the cartridges are.
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