While the Tape is Dead Marching Band and Chowder Society was still celebrating Imation’s plant closure, Oracle decided to rain on their parade by announcing a new version of its T10000 enterprise tape system with a native capacity of 5TBytes per cartridge. Since its largest SL8500 library can be built with 100,000 slots, and 640 drives, Oracle is claiming to have built the first exabyte storage system, with compression.
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