The predicted marriage of tape backup with high-performance random access disk technology has been floating around the industry since the advent of disk drives. Both industry experts and storage vendors alike have predicted that customers will need to be able to choose between tape and disk in an attempt to define the ideal secondary storage solution. However, attempts to replace tape with various technologies have always failed because they could not match or surpass tape in its removal, capacity, archival or low-cost benefits that users demand. The industry has therefore been searching for and exploring technologies that both complement and address low-end tape's biggest detractors; its relatively low performance during both backup and retrieval operations, and its' relatively high failure rates when compared to disk.
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