Magnetic Tape Data Storage Breakthrough Will
Make Your Hard Drive Seem Tiny:
"The amount of data you can squeeze onto a hard drive continues to grow by leaps and
bounds, with Seagate announcing a 60TB SSD late last year. But thanks to IBM and Sony,
tape might still reign supreme when you need to archive massive amounts of data, as the
companies have jointly developed a new kind of tape that can reportedly hold 201-
gigabits, or roughly 25GB, per square inch.
That might not seem impressive given you can buy tiny microSD cards that are capable of
holding 256GB of movies, photos, and music. But when you fill a cartridge with over a
kilometer of this new tape, you can store 330TB of data in less space than a hard drive
takes up. Accessing that data is no where near as instantaneous as it is with SSDs or even
hard drives, but for companies that need to hold onto years worth of data ‘just in case,’
tape cartridges can be a more affordable long-term solution."
See:
http://gizmodo.com/magnetic-tape-dat...our-1797462392