They're coming back.
Back with a vengeance.
185 terabytes of vengeance.
Way down deep in your hearts, you always knew they would...
From Gizmodo:
Sony's technique, which will be discussed at today's International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, uses a vacuum-forming technique called sputter deposition to create a layer of magnetic crystals by shooting argon ions at a polymer film substrate. The crystals, measuring just 7.7 nanometers on average, pack together more densely than any other previous method.
The result: three Blu-Rays' worth of data can fit on one square inch of Sony's new wonder-tape.
Naturally, that kind of memory isn't going to go in the cassette deck on your ancient boom box any time soon. Sony developed the technology for long-term, industrial-sized data backup, a field where tape's slow write times and the time it takes to scroll through yards and yards of tape to find a single file aren't crippling problems.
I gave all my cassettes away.
ReplyDeleteI hate anything that moves because it breaks...just saying.
ReplyDeleteI remember all the cassettes that failed! Lost lots of good music when they disintegrated while playing. It seems to me, that better use for the new technology would be in a better DVD disk. FWIW
ReplyDeleteDidn't they develop Beta?
ReplyDeleteThis sure shoots down my plan to pack more information into smoke signals...
ReplyDeleteI wish they would reinvent me a little bit. :p Uhrm... depending on how they do it?
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