Breakthrough in Tape data storage

[Ian]

IBM have managed to improve magnetic tape storage density to 201 gigabits per square inch, an incredible increase which allows up to 330TB on a standard palm-sized backup tape. Although you may have considered tape storage a think of the past, it is very much alive and well for data archival purposes.

The tape is enhanced by painting on several thin layers of barium ferrite liquid metal using a process similar to one used in the production of integrated circuits. It used the same metal without the sputtering process to store 123 gigabits per square inch on tape in 2015.

Now, IBM says the method allows it to record up to 330TB of uncompressed data on a standard palm-sized tape cartridge.

The new record volume is equivalent to about 330 million books and sets the path for IBM and other magnetic-tape vendors to continue doubling tape capacity about every two years.

Read the rest here:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-w...mpressed-data-on-a-palm-sized-tape-cartridge/

 

[nivrip]

palm-sized backup tape.

Is that palm of the hand size or palm tree size, Ian?

 

[Ian]

I should clarify that it's the former!