Welcome to the third annual CERN Tape Archive Workshop (CTA 2024).
The LHC experiments have completed another successful year of data taking, with new records in terms of throughput and total data archived.
This presentation will give an introduction to the CTA Project, Team and Community, as well as an overview of the challenges and achievements during the second year of LHC Run-3.
Today, magnetic tape is the lowest cost technology for storing large volumes of data. Historically, areal density scaling has been the main driver of the exponential decrease in cost, i.e. cents/GB of capacity, of both tape and hard disk drives. Recently, HDD scaling has stagnated while tape continues to scale at historical rates. The INSIC 2019-2029 Tape Technology Roadmap projects that tape...
