Sony Tape Storage Breakthrough Could Bring Us 185 TB Cartridges

jfruh (300774) writes "Who says tape storage is out of date? Sony researchers have announced a breakthrough in magnetic tape tech that increases the data density per square inch by a factor of 74. The result could be 185 TB tape cartridges. 'By comparison, LTO-6 (Linear Tape-Open), the latest generation of magnetic tape storage, has a density of 2 gigabits per square inch, or 2.5 TB per cartridge uncompressed.'"

Re: But is it even usable?

[davidhoude]

Say what? Everyone here keeps telling me that RAID is backups!

Nostalgia

[StripedCow]

What's next? Discs of vinyl which can hold up to 1000 songs?

Re:By way of context...

[Anonymous Coward]

16TB of "home video", 825GB of "family photos". Riiiiiiiight.

That's an impressive collection of porn you've got there. Hope there's none of the stuff that'll have get you in legal trouble.

Re:By way of context...

[JustOK]

Honey, remember this?! It's the video you shot of me shooting videos of our kids when they were first using their cameras! No, wait, that's the video the cat took when you were shooting a video of me shooting videos of our kids when they were first using their cameras. Did you ever feed that cat?

Yeah, but

[rsilvergun]

my MP3s have a warmer, more natural tone coming out of a tape deck.