330 Terabytes in the Palm of your hand

in #technology7 years ago


IBM researchers have figured out a way to store 330 terabytes of data in a tape storage the size of the palm of hand.
In the image below. 330 terabytes equivalent to the text of 330 million books.
What you see in the image from IBM is the sputtered tape which can hold 201 Gigabytes.
Read the full article here http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-sets-new-record-for-magnetic-tape-storage-makes-tape-competitive-for-cloud-storage-300498208.html.