{"id":213934,"date":"2010-01-22T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5454719"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:58:00","slug":"ibm-sets-magnetic-tape-data-density-record-35tb-of-storage-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/213934","title":{"rendered":"IBM Sets Magnetic Tape Data Density Record: 35TB of Storage [Storage]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/ibm_magnetic_tape.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_ibm_magnetic_tape.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>IBM and Fujifilm have spent the last three years working to improve <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #magnetictape\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/magnetictape\/\">magnetic tape<\/a> <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #datadensity\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/datadensity\/\">data density<\/a>, and the result is a prototype with a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch&mdash;enough to hold 35TB of data.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about 39 times the areal data density of today&#8217;s best products and 44 times the capacity of today&#8217;s IBM LTO Generation 4 cartridge. Plus, tape has cost advantage over flash and HDD, which makes it an attractive option for businesses that need to store large amounts of data. <strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/IBMResearchZurich#p\/a\/u\/0\/z2w-pzMjpx0\">video discussing the achievement<\/a> has been made available. 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That&#8217;s about 39 times the areal data density of today&#8217;s best products and 44 times the capacity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}