Magnetic tape storage is among the oldest applied sciences used for storing knowledge. The know-how was invented means again in 1928, and it’s virtually 100 years outdated. By right this moment’s requirements, the know-how is taken into account to be sluggish, nonetheless, it gives one thing that no trendy HDD or SDD gives. Today, in collaboration with Fujifilm, IBM has developed a Strontium Ferrite (SrFe) magnetic layer for LTO-Eight tapes which can be able to storing an incredible 580 TeraBytes of knowledge in a single cartridge. The new know-how will allow the trendy world to retailer ever-increasing knowledge sizes we are actually counting in zettabytes. To retailer all of that knowledge, one would want a high-capacity storage machine to retailer the entire “cold data” that does not want real-time processing and has data of worth.
That is precisely why IBM and Fujifilm have been growing the LTO-Eight tape drives which can be able to 580 TB of capability in a single cartridge. The know-how can obtain that capability due to the Strontium Ferrite (SrFe), which is able to 317Gb/in2 recording density. With 1255 meters of the tape, IBM and Fujifilm have been capable of obtain this density metric.
