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A new world record for one of the oldest types of storage media on December 18, 2020, 8:33 23 comments Why it matters: Magnetic tapes continue to be a formidable storage solution for data archival and backup, enabling organizations and large-scale businesses to hold onto vast amounts of data for decades. It's why this antiquated technology is still of interest to companies like IBM and Fujifilm, who've jointly developed a new type of magnetic tape that allows for an areal density of 317 gigabits per square inch. The result is a single cartridge that can ho...

(Photo: Fujifilm) According to IBM, by the time we reach 2025 the world will be creating 175 zettabytes of data. That's 175 trillion gigabytes, and we need a cost-effective way of storing it all. The solution? A new prototype magnetic tape that breaks the recording density world record. Mark Lantz, Manager of Advanced Tape Technologies at IBM Research, explains how researchers at IBM and Fujifilm brought together more than 15 years of work to set a new world record in tape storage. What they achieved is an areal density of 317Gbpsi (gigabits per square inch), which translates to a single tape...

T HE WHIRR of spooling magnetic tape is more likely to evoke feelings of nostalgia than technological awe. Yet tape remains important for data storage, with millions of kilometres of the stuff coiled up in the world’s data centres. Indirectly, says Mark Lantz of IBM, most computer users thus rely on tape every day. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Though tape may seem archaic, it is still getting better. In 2015 Dr Lantz’s team unveiled a version capable of squirrelling away 123 gigabytes per square inch (19Gb per square centimetre, but tapemakers still ...