Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage
Date	2014-05-04 21:38 +0000
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From the «take out the slack with a pencil» department:
Title: Sony blows away record with 185TB cassette tape
Author: Dante D'Orazio
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 17:08:02 -0400
Link: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/4/5681066/sony-blows-away-record-with-185tb-cassette-tape

[image 1]

Cassette tapes may have faded into oblivion[2] long ago, but magnetic tape
storage still has a key role to play behind the scenes. Extremely high
density tapes are used by corporations and government agencies for archival
purposes because they're cheaper, more power efficient, and more reliable
than disk-based storage. And now Sony has achieved an incredible storage
capacity of 18.5GB per square inch with its latest magnetic tapes — over five
times the record set in 2010 by IBM, and 74 times greater than tapes
typically used in archival storage today (like the one pictured above). With
that kind of density, one small data cartridge can hold a monumental 185TB of
data, though Sony hasn't commercialized the technology yet. Nevertheless,...

Continue reading…[3]

Links:
[1]: http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/32534689/Screen_Shot_2014-05-04_at_3.33.22_PM.0_standard_800.0.png (image)
[2]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/25/5653426/relics-of-technology (link)
[3]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/4/5681066/sony-blows-away-record-with-185tb-cassette-tape (link)

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Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-04 21:38 +0000
  Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-05-05 09:54 +0000
    Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-05 11:35 +0000
      Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-05-05 11:44 +0000
        Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-05-05 09:14 -0400
          Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-05 21:20 +0000
            Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-05-07 07:09 +0000
              Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-10 16:28 +0200
          Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-10 16:22 +0200
        Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-10 16:00 +0200
        Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-11 16:12 +0000
    Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-10 15:52 +0200
      Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-11 16:14 +0000
        Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-05-11 18:29 +0100
  Re: Sony's massive engineering improvement in tape storage Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-05-05 15:22 +0100

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