Sony has announced magnetic backup tape with the world’s highest areal recording density — 148 GB per square inch. It provides about 74 times the recording capacity of conventional mag tape media, Sony claimed. Data cartridges made using this technology could record more than 185 TB of data each. This technology “is aimed at applications that require high density, which could range from specialized servers to mega data centers,” Jim McGregor, founder and principal analyst at Tirias Research.
Kind of thinking tape is dead no matter how much space it has. It really does explain why Sony is having so many financial problems. Very sad how a once prominent electronics maker has fallen so far. Selling its computer line Vaio and its TV line struggling to compete. I bought my wife a Vaio laptop a year ago, and its complete rubbish.
I could have bought another brand at a 1/3 the cost with the same hardware.
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Sony's Record-Busting Magnetic Storage Tape Unlikely to Stick
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 5, 2014 01:22 PMSony has announced magnetic backup tape with the world’s highest areal recording density — 148 GB per square inch. It provides about 74 times the recording capacity of conventional mag tape media, Sony claimed. Data cartridges made using this technology could record more than 185 TB of data each. This technology “is aimed at applications that require high density, which could range from specialized servers to mega data centers,” Jim McGregor, founder and principal analyst at Tirias Research.
I could have bought another brand at a 1/3 the cost with the same hardware.