IBM Research researchers have set a new record of 201 gigabits per square inch of data stored on a Sony prototype of "sputtered magnetic tape".
The tape is enhanced by painting on several thin layers of barium ferrite liquid metal using a process similar to one used in the production of integrated circuits. It used the same metal without the sputtering process to store 123 gigabits per square inch on tape in 2015.
Now, IBM says the method allows it to record up to 330TB of uncompressed data on a standard palm-sized tape cartridge.
I didn't know this but Apparently some companies are still using tape disks to back up data to because it's cheaper than disk. I guess it makes sense if you can fit a dozen or two terabytes on a small tape disk and maybe soon 330 terabytes. That's an insane amount of data storage.
Maybe tape drives will be making a come back with this ridiculous amount of storage. You won't need a large room like this picture from the 1970s to store your data either. Heck not even a small server rack.
You'll probably just need something like this and couple tapes to store your hundreds of terabytes of data it should be all the data storage you'll ever need. Until they come out with 128k resolution video cameras :)
