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curl-6 on 04 May 2014

That's freaking awesome



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Zekkyou on 04 May 2014
SvennoJ said:
So where's my uncompressed 4K video player using that tape.
4K 24 fps is only 2tb per hour, screw that
8K 120 fps 12 bit color uncompressed 59tb per hour, 3h 15m per tape.
Can it read 16.7 GB/s though.



jigokutamago on 04 May 2014
Richard_Feynman said:
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?)

I agree that Sony does do new things, but using cassette tapes as an example is kind of funny.



episteme on 04 May 2014

The NSA, google and Facebook will like it.
Where's the 500TB vinyl?



SvennoJ on 04 May 2014
episteme said:
The NSA, google and Facebook will like it.
Where's the 500TB vinyl?

http://theconversation.com/more-data-storage-heres-how-to-fit-1-000-terabytes-on-a-dvd-15306
So on a DVD the size of a 12" Vinyl you should be able to store over 6,250 tb



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cheshirescat on 04 May 2014
SvennoJ said:
episteme said:
The NSA, google and Facebook will like it.
Where's the 500TB vinyl?

http://theconversation.com/more-data-storage-heres-how-to-fit-1-000-terabytes-on-a-dvd-15306
So on a DVD the size of a 12" Vinyl you should be able to store over 6,250 tb


I knew laserdisc was in line for a comeback.



SvennoJ on 04 May 2014
cheshirescat said:
SvennoJ said:
episteme said:
The NSA, google and Facebook will like it.
Where's the 500TB vinyl?

http://theconversation.com/more-data-storage-heres-how-to-fit-1-000-terabytes-on-a-dvd-15306
So on a DVD the size of a 12" Vinyl you should be able to store over 6,250 tb


I knew laserdisc was in line for a comeback.

Those are dual sided! 12,5 Peta bytes!

You can store all your memories 5 times!
Neurology: It is estimated that the human brain's ability to store memories is equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes of binary data.

Still not enough, must reach this goal:
5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings.



burninmylight on 04 May 2014

Whenever a new technology or device is announced, the first thing on everyone's mind is, "How's the porn on it?" ~_~



mysticwolf on 04 May 2014

That's the most storage I've ever heard of on one device.



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nanarchy on 04 May 2014

sadly this is unlikely to be something you will see anytime soon, even in the enterprise. most multi TB tapes are expensive for both tapes and drives so they end up capping out under 10TB even though they have been able to create them bigger than this for a long time now. Even the densities developed by IBM 4-5 years ago still aren't in use today as the tape reading technology to make practical use of these densities has been prohibitively expensive. basically it ends up cheaper to go to tape libraries where you can get sizes in the multi Exabyte range rather than going to massive dense tapes and then paying megabucks for the drives for them.