Remember the tape storage? Do you think it is gone to hell? Don't. Because, it is now the future of data storage.
Earlier August, Sony had announced that it has developed, in collaboration with IBM Research, a magnetic tape storage technology with the industry's highest recording areal density for tape storage media, at 201 gigabits per square inch.
Tape storage is currently the most secure, energy efficient and cost-effective solution for storing enormous amounts of back-up and archival data, as well as for new applications such as Big Data and cloud computing.
This new technolgy enables the potential to record up to about 330 terabytes of uncompressed data on a single tape cartridge that would fit in the palm of your hand. 330 terabytes of data can now be put on your palm! Some say, it is equivalent to 330 millions of book.
Photo: IBM scientist Dr. Mark Lantz, holds a one square inch piece of Sony Storage Media Solutions sputtered tape, which can hold 201 Gigabytes (Photo by IBM research)
source:
www.sony.net
www-03.ibm.com
Since most stuff on average compress around 30% to 50% (depending on the type of data)... this is potentially a 600TB tape cartridge! I handle thousands of LTO4, 5 and 6 tapes per year, so if this technology would be usable already, it would make my work 100 times faster!
Just a short perspective of life...
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Data storage technology improve so fast. It just 10 years ago, I am blown away with the 128kb thumb drive. Now, we are talking about hundreds of Tb storage capacity.
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