Tech News Magnetic Tape Data Storage Breakthrough Will Make Your Hard Drive Seem Tiny By Andrew Liszewski Published August 2, 2017 | Comments (0) 𝕏 ...

Although magnetic tape hasn’t been popular at the consumer level since about the 1980s, in the realm of data centers and longer term archival storage, its slower speeds are an acceptable price ...

And since cloud storage means the end user doesn’t have to be aware of exactly how their data is stored, you might find yourself relying on magnetic tape without even realizing it.

When you take that storage density and apply it to a length of 1,098 meters you're left with a cartridge capable of storing an insane 330 terabytes of data.</p> <p>Magnetic tape data storage dates ...

Magnetic tape may seem an antiquated data storage technology, but its density and capacity is still hard to beat for big data centers. Now, IBM and Fujifilm have created a prototype high-density ...

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Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and at Fuji Photo have devised a prototype storage system utilizing a dual-layer magnetic tape that can hold 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch.

Like all data storage methods, magnetic tapes have pluses and minuses. They're a physical medium, which adds a bonus level of stability compared to NAND flash memory.

That said, while 153 EB (153,000,000 TB) sounds a lot, the shipment report notes that this value is based on a 2.5:1 compression ratio being used by the magnetic tape storage, so the raw figure is ...

Magnetic tape, 3M, 6250 CPI for computer tape drives, used as storage media between 1970 and 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years ...

Tape’s heyday as a data-storage medium for computers was in the 1950s. Hard disks, introduced in 1956, were quickly seen as superior because they required no time-consuming spooling.

Tape will never be the whole answer to storing data, according to Dr Eleftheriou. But it forms a crucial part of a “storage hierarchy”. At the top of this are so-called hot data, those that ...