This is interesting. Sony has used nanotechnology to create a commercially viable process for a magnetic tape which can hold 74 times the data of a conventional tape. It will incorporate the tape in a data cartridge that will have a capacity of 185TB.
It’s funny how some things won’t die. Magnetic tape has been old hat for many years now, yet many organisations still rely on the medium for data backup and restore.
The data density involved marks a huge leap in capacity for the medium. It makes you wonder what effect it will have on other forms of storage – just imagine having 200TB hard disk drives (HDDs) as standard.
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