The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.

Compared to disk, tape drives have very large magnetic particles and tape is stored at ambient temperature. Disk drives have much smaller magnetic particles and they are constantly running at much ...

Starr was referring to an array’s ability to rebuild data striped across multiple disks after a single drive fails. Another advantage to combining disk arrays with tape libraries is that ...

Here’s a look at modern tape drives, discussion of the ... a true air gap that ransomware cannot cross. One downside to tape is that, unlike disk and cloud backups, you can’t simply launch ...

We knew it would be a magneto-electric disk (MED ... it could reduce TCO by 20% compared to tape, and reduce power consumption by 90% compared to hard drives. Now, Blocks & Files has uncovered ...

Sepaton's S2100 DS2 Series 500 writes data onto the hard disk dive, but it is designed so that it looks like a tape drive to the backup software. The DS-2 is the company's second-generation VTL ...

Coping with failed backup, tape drive failures and media errors consumes nearly two thirds of the efforts involved in storage management. Disk-based backup is designed to eradicate this problem.

Data centres based on disc drive arrays use over 200 times more power than would a tape library of similar size, according to a 2010 study by The Clipper Group, a technology consultancy based in ...

In addition, the DX30 will appear as a tape library to management software, which means administrators can keep their current back-up procedures intact. “We take inexpensive disk drives and make ...