50 TB Per Tape Cartridge
 

Hitachi Maxell and Tokyo Institute of Technology today jointly announced the development of ultra high capacity tape media with ultra thin nano-structured magnetic film by using of facing targets sputtering method. The demonstrated a world-record areal density of 45.0 Gb/in2 in linear formatted perpendicular magnetic recording media. This latest technology enables over 50 TB capacity per a standard tape cartridge, which equals to 33 times larger than a capacity of the latest LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge.

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