If you haven’t heard, tape might be coming back into the public consciousness the same way that vinyl did. Tape may have died as a medium for music, but it has always lived on strong in the world of computing, ensuring that your data is backed up in case of a crash. What does tape do better than others you might ask?
It’s simple, tape is one of the best ways to store data for the long term. Hard drives and other digital forms of storage will eventually fragment or corrupt, or the services running the memory might fold over long periods of time. Meanwhile, tape drives will still be going strong. This makes them perfect for organizations that need to have a long memory or need to guarantee that they track everything for compliance purposes...
