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Title	Pray for tape; its demise would be disastrous for small businesses
Type	Opinion
Source	ITworld.com 09/13/2006
Summary	Sitting just a few feet from me in my home office is 2 terabytes of RAID 5 storage, in a cabinet barely bigger than a one-gallon milk bottle. Lying on my desk are four 8-gigabyte Compact Flash cards, each no bigger than a fifty-cent piece. Is it any wonder that few people seem to talk about tape for the SMB market anymore? continue

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