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Sony Innovating In Tape Technology… Seriously (185 Tera Bytes )
legitreviews.com ^ | Fri, May 09, 2014 - 6:53 AM | Benjamin Young

Posted on 05/09/2014 10:07:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All
New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs
That's all? ...just how many Beatles' / Yoko OH!_NO! ...
BeeGee's / ABBA's / etc..etc..songs can / should be copied.

21 posted on 05/09/2014 11:27:18 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That is technically enough to back up a person’s brain!!!


22 posted on 05/09/2014 11:28:56 AM PDT by GraceG
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IBM worked with SONY on this,....

Suely one of the plants is digging out their blueprints from years ago...

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/40750/data-cell


23 posted on 05/09/2014 11:38:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Marine_Uncle

Are y0u kidding?

Are y0u a m0r0n?


24 posted on 05/09/2014 11:45:39 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Another try for the second image.

The magnetic film strip was wound by mechanical means and kept in the round plastic cartridge seen beside the tape reel.

There was a follow on ot this box A real mechanical marvel....

25 posted on 05/09/2014 11:47:32 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Need another picture....different spirce:


26 posted on 05/09/2014 11:54:27 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Typo correction:

Need another picture....different source:

27 posted on 05/09/2014 11:56:17 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I say, "Yeah, well...whatever"...

...as Sony seems to not want to let people know what the read/write speeds are.

As the author here aptly questions
http://nofilmschool.com/2014/05/sonys-185-tb-cassette-is-the-future-of-storage-cassette-tape/

"First and foremost is the matter of read/write speed on these cassettes. How quickly will they record your data, and more importantly, how quickly will you be able to access your data if you need it in a pinch? Chances are that the answers to those questions aren’t all that positive, especially considering that current LTO tapes read/write speeds range from 150-400MB/s depending on the compression of the data being transferred."
There is a reason tape drives went the wayside for most in IT once storage capacity on disc became cheaper...

And furthermore, I'm still pretty pissed off at Sony for killing HDDVD...

28 posted on 05/09/2014 12:09:58 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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RE: "Are y0u kidding? Are y0u a m0r0n?"
A Freeper was kind enough to send me mail as to what prOn stands for. I was clueless. I'll let it go at that.
29 posted on 05/09/2014 1:31:25 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Your follow up picture posts do bring back some memories.


30 posted on 05/09/2014 1:33:28 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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