IBM Researchers Stuff 6.67 Billion Bits Into One Square Inch

[Pinnacle]

IBM researchers announced that they have established a new world record in data density by cramming 6.67 billion bits into a square inch of magnetic tape


http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2378

[Revv23]

i dont see how, since this is a tape backup you are posting about. ;)

If anything this will rpevent them from becoming obsolete.

[Pinnacle]

i dont see how, since this is a tape backup you are posting about. ;)

If anything this will rpevent them from becoming obsolete.


Darn, I should read. Your right

[ahmad]

i dont see how, since this is a tape backup you are posting about. ;)

If anything this will rpevent them from becoming obsolete.

And of course they will never be obselete.

[Pinnacle]

And of course they will never be obselete.

one day

[MaxxxRacer]

Tape backups are inheriently backwards compatible for reads since the inception of the LTO standard. Also, for each update the newest readers are backwards compatible for writting to the tape for 2 generations.

right now hte largest tapes are 400gb, when the 800's come out the newest drives will support reads to ALL LTO tapes and reads to the 400's and 200's generation.

What this all means is that tape is here to stay and it will be a very long time before it becomes obsolete considering the price to storage ratio and the INSANE read speeds that these tape drives have. When the 800gb tapes come out they will actually read faster than any 7200RPM HDD on the market..

One last thing. 1.6Tb tapes arnt too far off either..

[nn_step]

Well that extended the life of Tape backups