Sony announced it has created a cassette tape that smashes a previous record for data storage. The Japanese company says its new tape is capable of holding 185 terabytes, or 148 gigabits per ...

Sony might not even turn this technology into a product that'll see the light of day. You'll find the magnetic tape Sony has created this month to be able to hold 148GB per inch. Rolled up into ...

Now, Sony has developed a new technology that pushes tape drives far beyond where they once were, leading to individual tapes with 185 terabytes of storage capacity. By James Plafke May 5 ...

At the INTERMAG Europe 2014 international magnetics conference in Dresden, Sony announced a new breakthrough in magnetic tape technology that keeps the medium relevant by allowing a tape cartridge ...

Sony has developed a magnetic tape material that can store data at 148 gigabits per square inch, roughly 74 times the density of standard tapes. The technology represents the world’s highest ...

Sony's new method means you could cram 185TB onto a single cassette tape. The average Blu-Ray disc holds 50GB and a standard PC hard drive 1TB. To illustrate just how dramatic this is ...

Because the stakes are high and tape is being pushed to its boundaries, Sony Optical Archive has developed an optical library that can hold up to 181PB in a single system (4 of which can be tied ...

IBM and Sony have developed a new magnetic tape system capable of storing 201 gigabits of data per square inch, for a max theoretical capacity of 330 terabytes in a single palm-sized cartridge.

Now, Sony and IBM Research have teamed up to break the areal density record for the medium, cramming 201 billion bits of uncompressed data into each square inch of tape. IBM has a history of ...

The longer recording capacity of VHS – short for video home system – and the less expensive cost of its tape players compared with Betamax have been cited as reasons for the decline of Sony's ...