Even with the latest technology in use these days, magnetic tape is still a robust way to backup data. People used to listen to music on tapes as well as stored data on them. With the advancement in technology, the music shifted to CDs and later portable drives. Tape drive still count when talking about backing up data. They are considered one of the best options to backup data. Sony has done a marvelous job by pushing the things further and make tape drives far better than they initially were. Sony just introduced a tape that can hold 148GB per square inch. It means the whole cassette can store about 185TB of data, which is quite huge. Get ready to join all tape to get one giant one.
In 2010, the maximum data that can be stored on a magnetic tape was 29.5GB per square inch. Sony has announced a new technology to be used for magnetic tapes ton increase the capacity. The capacity 148GB per square inch is the new record for magnetic tape storage. On a full tape cassette, it will total to 185TB of data that is equal to 3,700 dual blue-rays disks. This is really a huge capacity for data storage on magnetic tapes.
Sony has used a vacuum forming technique to create a layer of magnetic crystals by shooting argon ions at a polymer film substrate. This technology is called sputter deposition. The crystals, which are just the average size of 7.7 nanometers, pack together more densely than anything used in the previous methods. Therefore, the result is wonderful. Data equal to three blue-rays can fit into only one square inch of this new wonder tape by Sony.
Sony has developed the technology for long-term, industrial-sized data backup. This is the field where slow write times and the time taken to scroll through yards of the tape to find a single file is not a problem at all. It is yet to be decided by Sony when they plan to launch this product in the market but it is sure to hit the market hard and quick.
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