Sony and IBM team up to create 330 TB tapes
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The oldest gerbils probably think about magnetic tape in the context of data storage for Commodore VIC-20s and the like. The youngest gerbils probably think of tapes as the way their parents used to record TV shows before the days of online streaming and DVR boxes. Magnetic tape is alive and well in the realm of large-scale backup operations, and Sony and IBM have worked together to create a prototype system that can store a mammoth 330 TB of data on a single cartridge with a volume of one third of a liter. For comparison's sake, a standard 3.5" hard drive displaces about 0.4 L and currently tops out at a capacity of 12 TB.
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