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Think of your favorite novel. It can be recorded in .005 seconds.
How about an hour of your favorite music? All recorded in 2.6 seconds.
Five thousand videos? Recorded in 12 hours.
The entire contents of the Library of Congress? 29 hours.
Fast recording comes from a fast-growing company called Conduant, a Longmont-based designer and maker of diskbased recording systems.
Perhaps the only thing faster than its recording ability is its growth. The company has experienced 1,054 percent growth since it started in 1996. Last year's revenue totaled $2.7 million.
Behind the numbers is this: When it comes to recording, it looks like tape is out and disks are in. (The recording times listed above are 6.6 times faster than the fastest tape technology.)
Why disk technology? Besides being faster, disk systems make fewer errors, perform better and cost less than similar tape systems.
"Disks are becoming the preferred medium for recording, backup and archival and disks cost less than tape in many cases," said Tom Skrobacz, vice president of business development for Conduant.
Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology backs up his claim. MIT did an independent study that confirmed disk media are now cheaper than tape for high-end...