The hipsters over at Sony have created a cassette tape that smashes the previous record for data storage.
The Japanese company claims the new tape, which was developed with the help of IBM, is capable of holding 185 terabytes of data. To put that in perspective, that's the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-Ray discs — more than enough room to hold all of your Magnetic Fields songs.
The previous data storage record for a cassette tape, set in 2010 by Fujifilm and IBM, was a paltry 35 terabytes.
"The expansion of cloud services and the creation of new markets to utilise big data have led to a growing need for a data storage media which can store large amounts of information," Sony said in a statement, seemingly unconcerned by the potential for their old car stereo to chew up their data.
Of course, just because Sony CAN essentially store the sum total of all human knowledge on a cassette tape doesn't mean they SHOULD. We'd rather they were a little bit selective about what data they put on there — there are rules about this sort of thing, you know.
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[via Los Angeles Times]
