Just Two Tape Cartridge Manufacturers Remaining, Fujifilm and Sony - Correction

From: Ben Roeder <ben.roeder@sohonet.com>

Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Just Two Tape Cartridge Manufacturers Remaining, Fujifilm and Sony

Date: May 14, 2014 at 7:36:39 AM PDT

To: <studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com>

Reply-To: <studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com>

This should make things interesting, how long before we end up in a SR situation ?

Two Japanese companies decided last months to stop manufacturing tape cartridge media (especially LTO): Maxell and TDK.

http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/tapes/just-two-tape-cartridge-manufacturers-remaining-fujifilm-and-sony/

and three in tape drives (HP, IBM, Oracle StorageTek)

and three in HDDs (Seagate, HP, Toshiba)

Not sure how many workstation makers there are these days.
Ben Roeder
ben.roeder@sohonet.com
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