{"id":74529,"date":"2017-12-16T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/ibm-stuffs-a-whopping-330tb-of-data-into-a-tiny-cartridge"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:00:25","slug":"ibm-stuffs-a-whopping-330tb-of-data-into-a-tiny-cartridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/ibm-stuffs-a-whopping-330tb-of-data-into-a-tiny-cartridge","title":{"rendered":"IBM Stuffs a Whopping 330TB of Data into a Tiny Cartridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wm1JiI6CppU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some of the earliest computers relied upon tape drives for storage, but we\u2019ve since moved on to faster and more versatile storage technologies. Still, tape drives continue to exist in enterprise, and they\u2019ve been advancing by leaps and bounds while you haven\u2019t been paying attention. IBM just announced a new record in data storage density \u2014 201 gigabits per square inch on a magnetic tape (that\u2019s one square inch of it above). That works out to a whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/2\/16074568\/ibm-330-terabytes-record-uncompressed-data-cartridge-cartridge-tape\">330TB of uncompressed data<\/a> on a single tape drive cartridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/tag\/ibm\">IBM<\/a> reached this plateau in magnetic tape density by developing several new technologies. Older versions of IBM\u2019s magnetic tape used a thin film of barium ferrite particles applied to the surface like paint. \u201cSputtered tape\u201d uses several layers of thin metal film that are applied using a new vacuum technology. A layer of lubricant is also applied to the reading surface of the tape to keep the tape in good working order as it\u2019s run through the drive. The higher density arrangement of magnetic nanoparticles will, of course, require new drive technology to read.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/253528-ibm-stuffs-330tb-data-single-tape-drive-cartridge\">https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/253528-ibm-stuffs-330t...-cartridge<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the earliest computers relied upon tape drives for storage, but we\u2019ve since moved on to faster and more versatile storage technologies. Still, tape drives continue to exist in enterprise, and they\u2019ve been advancing by leaps and bounds while you haven\u2019t been paying attention. IBM just announced a new record in data storage density [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74555,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74529\/revisions\/74555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}