DOGE ditches magnetic tape, but experts defend the legacy tech

DOGE ditches magnetic tape, but experts defend the legacy tech

DOGE recently announced that it has replaced 14,000 magnetic storage tapes used by the US General Services Administration (USGSA) with unspecified "modern" digital formats. The move, which the department says will save $1 million per year, drew sharp criticism from experts who defended the ancient but still useful technology.Read Entire Article

DOGE Replacing Magnetic Tape Archives With Digital Is a Dangerous Move, Critics Say

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year.The problem is, magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term data storage. Just because it’s a 70 year old medium doesn’t mean those records needed a massive over…

Tapes are the cheapest, most secure and ecological way to store large amounts of data.

Tom’s Hardware: U.S. Gov’t eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year, but tape isn’t dead yet | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Tom’s Hardware: U.S. Gov’t eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year, but tape isn’t dead yet. “Hopefully, no official installed at DOGE or GSA assumed that because magnetic tape has been around for such a long time, it is outdated and, therefore, a prime target for replacement with new and improved storage tech. Recently, we reported that the tech behind tape storage, the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) standard, carries on with a rob…

USA: How Will DOGE Save $1M Per Year By Converting From Magnetic Tape?

Thomas Coughlin, storage analyst and consultant, had written an article for Forbes website concerning the US DOGE decision on storage on magnetic tapes. An April 4 US DOGE social post announced that “The USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 year old technology for information storage) to permanent […] The post USA: How Will DOGE Save $1M Per Year By Converting From Magnetic Tape? appeared first on Storage…