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Oracle has upgraded its StorageTek StreamLine 8500 tape library with more slots, LT05 support and redundant robotics and electronics for increased reliability. The 8500's maximum capacity has risen to 100,000 slots from 70,000, by linking ten 10,000 slot libraries together, and managing them as a single entity. Support has …

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  1. Ball boy Silver badge
    Coat

    ...but no Win7 support?

    Pah, it'll never catch on then.

    Mine's the one with the Inmac tape viewer in the pocket (anyone else remember those?)

    1. Trygve Henriksen

      Nope...

      Can't even Google them.

      Got a link?

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Windows

      If it's ACSLS controlled, it will have Windows support.

  2. Sekundra
    Joke

    Storage Comparison

    Blimey - it will remember almost as much as my wife!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    Cor...

    More than a Sinclair Microdrive...

    1. Trygve Henriksen
      Thumb Up

      Yes, but...

      You can't fit a couple of LTO5 tapes in a matchstick box...

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  5. max allan
    Welcome

    Welcome

    I, for one, welcome our tape swapping overlords...

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Grenade

    Loading?

    So who unpacks and loads all these damn tapes then?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Ook Ook

      You get your tape monkey to do it.

      Although it probably won't be full to start with...

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