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Big Data Supply, Inc. “Buying & Supplying the Data Center”™; Complete stocking vendor of data tape media & solution provider for all of your asset recovery & recycling needs on products with highest of confidential data such as data tape media to all your hardware, peripherals & more. We buy new & used IT equipement and offer 100% data destruction onsite or at our facility with full chain-of-custody. We recoup much of our customers’ initial investment in a secure, simple and eco-friendly manner.

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Magnetic tape happens to be one of the oldest and most reliable recording technologies ever created. It uses a spool of linearly oriented tape that is composed of several layers, including a magnetic layer, that passes under a read-write head to record binary bit info into tracks.

As time has progressed, tape cartridges have improved by leaps and bounds. Newest versions, such as the LTO-6 can be used much like disks. Data can be written and retrieved faster than ever.

Another key discovery was IBM and Fujifim’s discovery and use of barium ferrite (BaFe). It is a relatively new tape media coating technology and magnetic particle that lends to tape’s reliability, stability, and efficiency.

While there are several types of tape available, LTO tape is quickly emerging as the leader of the pack. Small, medium, and semi-large organizations are continuing to adopt LTO for data archiving and more.

According to Fujifilm, the past 12 years have seen more than 4 million LTO tape drives and nearly 200 million cartridges shipped. The LTO-6 boasts of 6.25 TB of compressed capacity and an impressive transfer rate of 400 MB/sec.

Beyond LTO tape, other popular tape formats include Oracle’s Sun/STK tape drive and cartridge (for huge organizations), the T10000C (which is much faster than LTO tape and hold quite a bit more data), and IBM’s TS1140 (which rivals Oracle’s Sun/STK in both speed and cost).

Why Tape is Not Dead

Tape isn’t dead for a number of very relevant reasons:

1. It is cost-effective. Disk only solutions tend to be much more expensive.
2. It is reliable. Tape is the most data storage medium on the market.
3. It lasts for 30 years and more. When stored in a stable environment, you can be sure that tape will last for decades.
4. It can’t be hacked. Disks can be hacked and are susceptible to bugs, while tape is stored offline and can’t be touched — unless of course a tape gets into the wrong hands.
5. Tape is recyclable.

Experts are still predicting that tape will play a much larger role in the near future. Organizations are learning the hard way that data can be wiped from disks and lost from the cloud. Backing up data on tape is a must.

Want to learn more about tape? Drop as an e-mail with your questions and we’ll answer!

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Each and every day, we are approached by organizations and individuals who are wanting to sell used data tape cartridges. Their decision to do so is usually motivated by a few factors.

1. 100% Data Destruction
2. Complete Chain-of-Custody
3. An auditable reporting process for compliance
4. Eco-friendly
5. Recoup a part of initial investment

The beauty of tape is that it can be used time and time again. Unfortunately, the majority of tape users either aren’t aware of this fact or don’t know where to turn to for recycling.

Our customers love working with us for a number of reasons, including:

• We are very easy to work with.
• We arrange everything. — making sure tapes are picked up, evaluated, expunged of data, and ready to be used again.
• We pay top dollar.
• We help them meet regulatory standards for data erasure.

Simply put, we take all the stress out of the process.

To gain cash for your used tape, here’s how it works:

1. Take an inventory of the tapes you want to recycle.
2. E-mail or call us with as much info as possible on your inventory: Format | Version | Brand | Quantity | Condition
3. We’ll provide a quote.
4. We’ll arrange for shipment.
5. We’ll erase, test and inspect your tapes to make sure they are recyclable.
6. We’ll send you a check or issue a credit for IT equipment of your choice.

Our job is to completely relieve our clients of all worries and frustrations surrounding the recycling and data erasure process.

Have questions about selling tape? We’ll be happy to answer them all and help make the process amazingly easy.

Drop us an e-mail or give us a call to get started!

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There’s a lot of misinformation about there about tape and disk storage. For years now, the “experts” have maintained that tape would be dead as a doornail by now. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

First and foremost, it’s important to know exactly what you’re asking when you question disk and tape. There are all sorts of functions that take place when data is being preserved. For instance, there are backups and then there is data restoration.

In the case of a disk backup or data replication, data is send over distance using a WAN. The data is then taken to an offsite storage facility. In this case, you may wonder if this is faster than a tape backup and offsite storage.

The answer depends on a handful of factors, including the amount of data that must be moved across the WAN, the distance that it must be moved, and the overall efficiency of the WAN. It is all too often reported that the speed of a WAN is often quite slow.

If a WAN is slow and inefficient, LTO-6 tape and other leading tape backup options are the way to go. It is possible to transfer massive amounts of data in a very short timespan. Plus, when it comes to stability over time, tape has a very long shelf life.

Another thing to consider when analyzing the efficiency/performance of disk and tape is file structure. It use to be that disk ran circles around tape when users tried to access a particular piece of data or file. Now LTO tape has LTFS (Linear Tape File System), which allows for data to be retrieved much faster than it used to be.

Also, it should be mentioned that the streaming rate of tape is much faster than disk. Thus, when for long block files (such as videos) once the very first byte of a requested file is found, the transfer of the entire file is significantly faster.

As tape continues to evolve, it will be quite interesting to see how its role within the data storage system evolves.

We predict that tape will continue to grow in importance, especially as data storage systems continue to grow exponentially for organizations of all shapes and sizes.

Have any questions surrounding the above info? We’d love to answer them. Please drop us and e-mail or give us a call, and we’ll help steer you in the best possible direction.

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