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PMD Data Solutions have expanded its range of innovative data management and archive technology solutions to include mLogic’s mTape LTO6 Thunderbolt external tape drive. The mLogic mTape is the world's first Thunderbolt enabled desktop external LTO6 tape drive. The drive has a compact form factor which sits neatly on your desktop and plugs directly into your MAC or PC via the high speed Thunderbolt2 interface, allowing data transfer speeds of up to 20gb/sec, using reliable and robust LTO6 data tape media. The mLogic mTape has dual Thunderbolt ports to enable daisy-chaining and is plug-and-play so takes very little time to...

Researchers at IBM, working with FujiFilm, have recently achieved a major breakthrough in data tape technology, ensuring that Magnetic Tape solutions will lead the world in robust, reliable and cost effective Big Data management systems. FujiFilm's high density Barium Ferrite (BaFe) tape coating, along with other technical developments, has increased data capacity of a single tape to 154 terabytes - 62 times more data than LTO6! With developments in data hardware and supporting software products – such as LTFS - it is clear that magnetic data tape technology will lead the market for handling, storing and archiving Big Data now,...