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That more than doubled the previous record of 5 billion bits per square inch, set in the same lab only a year earlier.
In combination, they can store 29.5 billion bits per square inch, which translates to a cartridge capable of holding around 35 terabytes of data more than 40 times the capacity of cartridges currently available, and several times more than a hard disk of comparable size.
The tape boasts a density of 45.0Gb/in2 69.8Mb/mm22), as opposed to the 29.5 billion bits per square inch Fujifilm/IBM offered.
In the end, recording density should be as high as 5 terabits (5 trillion bits) per square inch, ten times more than now.
Within two years, IBM expects the technology to allow hard drives to store up to 100 billion bits of data per square inch, up from about 34 billion bits per square inch now.
The switch is expected to quadruple data capacity to about 100 billion bits per square inch by 2003, a density that will allow desktop computers to store 400 gigabytes of data.
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The current electron beam recorder is essentially a production machine capable of making full-length exposures at capacities of up to 50 GB with a simple low-cost upgrade path to disc capacities of several hundred gigabytes and beyond and hard disk drives (HDD) with capacities of up to 1 tera bit per square inch.
The LTO-8 tape has a raw areal density of about 9 Gbpsi (giga-bits per square inch).
At the 2016 IEEE InterMag/MMM Conference laboratory demonstrations of 1.4 Tera-bit (Tb) per square inch magnetic recording were shown (a good thing since shipping HDDs are now close to 1.3 Tb per square inch).
The tape, which measures 800 meters in length by one-half-inch wide, boasts a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch.
Over the past 4 decades, computers have gone from storing a few thousand bits of data per square inch of hard disk space (the standard industry measure) to tens of billions of bits in the same space today.
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