Fujifilm and IBM have teamed up to develop magnetic tape that can store up to 35 TB of uncompressed digital data, the amount that is 44 times greater than what was previously possible.
They’ve spent several years of researches and one of the success factors is they’ve managed to develop magnetic tape based upon barium ferrite (BaFe) particles. To increase storage capacity, the size of the particles needs to be reduced. But smaller particles normally result weaker magnetism. The two companies managed to overcome it by having developed particles that is one third the size of of conventional metal magnetic substances, but still maintain high magnetism.
Once the 35TB magnetic tape is made commercially available, it will be best used for backing up today’s rapidly growing amount of data in a cheaper manner.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 am
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