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Magnetic tape storage is booming again, thanks to AI's unquenchable hunger for data

New LTO Ultrium LTO-10 tapes can store up to 100TB of compressed data per cartridge
Magnetic Storage Bubble: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format was designed back in the 90s as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. Now, the magnetic storage technology is growing in both relevance and shipment volumes because AI companies can't seem to stop gobbling up digital data for LLM training and inference workloads.
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