Sony Magnetic Tape Data Storage

At first the tapes were wound in wheel like reels but then cassettes and.

Sony magnetic tape data storage. Tokyo japan sony corporation sony today announced that it has developed in collaboration with ibm research located in zurich switzerland a magnetic tape storage technology with the industry s highest 1 recording areal density for tape storage media at 201 gb in 2 gigabits per square inch. The format is described by the ecma 248 adopted june 1998 and iso iec 15731 standards. There are two sizes of tape cassettes s and l. Digital tape format is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by sony it uses a 1 2 wide tape in a cassette with two reels which is written and read with a helical scan process.

A magnetic tape in computer terminology is a storage medium that allows for data archiving collection and backup. Magnetic tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording initially large open reels were the most common format but modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes such as the widely supported linear tape open lto. When the magnetic tape created using this technology was measured and evaluated using an exploratory recording and assessment device this new media was shown to achieve the world s highest areal recording density of 148 gb in 2 equivalent to approximately 74 times the capacity of conventional coated tape media for data storage. Sony has announced that thanks to a partnership with ibm research in zurich the pair have developed a magnetic tape cartridge capable of storing 201.