It's more than enough for HD porn, but about 4K porn?

every Dead Head in the land will be wanting this.

They need money but they still screw around with old technology, lol.

2 areas that are in constant growth in enterprise datacenters is the need for more storage and faster and larger backup medium. Tape has been the only truly viable medium for the last few decades and it is a damn smart investment to be going down this route as long as they aren't aiming for producing a proprietry system as so many enterprises are already locked into vendors such as IBM, EMC, Hitachi etc . Tape *IS* the backup medium of the future at this point in time.

old school still going,is this where all our pointless cloud saves go

Specially the 4k porn! That's the most important one!

SvennoJ said 4k/24fps is about 2tb per hour, so you're looking at about 92 hours of 4k porn.

Eh. It's good enough for 2014 standards!

Cloud providers like enterprises generally use tiered storage. If you don't access the storage often then it gradually migrates (or sometimes rapidly depending on the enterprise or provider) down the tiers until it hits tape, each tier is generally slower and more cost effective, quite common to have 3 tiers sometimes more. Where I work here we have 4 tiers of storage, starting at the top high throughput SAN's with tier one being the cache/SSD's all the way down to tier 4 being Tape. for the most part tape is only slower to start the retrieval, once the tape is mounted by the robot in the tape system the actual retrieval speed (as long as you are doing sequential reads) is not that much different than if you were doing from Tier 1 disk.

I hope ZX Spectrum makes a comeback with this!