I recall Storagetek talking about RAIT around a decade ago. Not sure if anything came of it in the mainframe space. The concept seems to be 'out there' on other platforms.
On 1 June 2014 01:41, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > There is Error Correcting Code to help recover each block. Up from > Parity to detect errors on 7 and 9 bit tapes. Recommendation is to > duplicate each tape. > > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Rob Schramm <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is there such a thing as RAID S tape storage? Thus helping to ensure data > > integrity in the face of a tape loss? > > > > Of course managing tape dsn churn would be a challenge.. but big data > says > > keep it all. :-) > > > > Rob Schramm > > On May 19, 2014 4:32 PM, "Ed Finnell" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Topic drift alert! We had a PhD candidate come in to Help Desk in > >> tears(circa 1986). She was typing her dissertation on her PC and storing > >> each > >> chapter on a floppy then pinning to fridge with kitchen magnet. > >> They were sent off for recovery but only got a portion back. > >> > >> Some of the new rare earth magnets are so strong you can't break them > >> apart. > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet > >> > >> > >> In a message dated 5/19/2014 3:55:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > >> [email protected] writes: > >> > >> IBM, Fujifilm squeeze more terabytes out of tape storage; Summary: > IBM's > >> advance means a standard tape cartridge could store 154 terabytes of > >> uncompressed data. > >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
