Sony reveals 185TB Cassette Tape... I kid you not

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VanceIX on 04 May 2014

So, Sony just revealed a 185TB cassette tape. That's right, not gigabyte, terabyte. On a cassette tape. Storage medium of the future?

...probably not, haha

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/4/5681066/sony-blows-away-record-with-185tb-cassette-tape

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KingdomHeartsFan on 04 May 2014

We gonna be playing PS5 games on that.

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NiKKoM on 04 May 2014

Finally I can backup all my HD porn..

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pokoko on 04 May 2014

Corporations will like this. It will reduce storage costs and storage space.

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cheshirescat on 04 May 2014

NiKKoM said:
Finally I can backup all my HD porn..

How many cassettes is that gonna take you?

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Richard_Feynman on 04 May 2014

That's very cool!

Magnetic tapes have many benefits and with one little tape like this you can backup all your stuff without ever worrying about running out of space.

So cool!

(now where are the people that say Sony don't ever do new things?)

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VanceIX on 04 May 2014

Srassy said:
Yeah, my dad is an IT manager for a food distributor. Seriously, every day they back up all their software on a 2-3 TB tape. It's actually pretty cool stuff. This is definitely business application stuff though. Cassettes are really only good for backups because of the linear access.

Linear access, and read times are pretty bad compared to solid state. It's the reason cassettes fell out of favor with consumer use after CDs came along.

But still, dat storage

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