Research May Prolong Tape’s Life for 10 Years.
Just when the doom buglers are ready to blow taps for tape as an archival medium (once again), researchers seem to find a way to prolong the life of it. Some recent news from IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratories in Switzerland is a case in point. Researchers there have developed a new material that can store 29.5 billion bits of data per inch of tape. That kind of density would increase the capacity of a typical tape cartridge to 35 terabytes, or 40 times the capacity of current carts. Read More …
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