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IBM and Fuji Announce Tape Storage Breakthrough

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the data-in-a-volkswagon dept.

robkill writes "IBM and Fuji have announced a breakthrough in the amount of data that can be stored on magnetic tape, a 15X improvement to 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch. IBM estimates that it will be 5 years before this hits the mass market"

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  1. Death? by UnixSphere · · Score: 2, Funny

    When will tape die?

    1. Re:Death? by Draconix · · Score: 2, Funny

      When someone walks by with a magnet in their pocket?

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  2. That... by remembertomorrow · · Score: 5, Funny

    is a lot of porn.



    What?

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  3. Tape. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tapes... I wonder, could this technology be applied to floppy disks?

  4. 5 years? by the_humeister · · Score: 1, Funny

    By then my collection will have surpassed this capacity...

  5. What's magnetic tape? by Graboid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read about it a history book a few years back (right next to zip disks and 8 track players)....

    What's next? Commodore 1024?

  6. Why use cruddy old tape? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why use cruddy old tape these days?
    This is Slashdot!
    I'm waiting for the obligatory clueless slashdot replies-
    1. Who needs tape? I can get a couple 200GB IDE drive at Newegg and use the cool RAID controller on my motherboard!
    2. Who needs tape? I can get a $50 DVD writer at Newegg and backup to DVD!!!!
    3. Who needs tape? I keep my backups on a $30 USB flash stick that I bought at Newegg!

  7. Breakthrough!!!! by HardCase · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if you combine the tape density breakthrough with the Linux device driver breakthrough, can you go faster than the speed of light? Or does SM just need a thesaurus?

    -h-

  8. Re:No capacity mentioned. by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

    I prefer to measure in 747's full of telephone books crashing into LA storage units.

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  9. Re:My interest is piqued. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I need it for all the pictures of your mom.

    Yo momma so fat, I need all that storage for just one picture of her.