New magnetic tape to have 15 times current storage capacity: IBM
16th May 2006, 14:29 GMT
The good old magnetic tape will continue to be the chosen storage medium for many more years to come, IBM said yesterday. Scientists at the tech giant's Almaden Research Center and magnetic tape maker Fuji developed a new method and a dual-sided magnetic tape on which they stored 6.67 billion bits per square inch - a world record in data density.
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