" Sony " the evolution of magnetic storage tapes with a capacity of 185 terabytes

Has developed a " Sony " material for use in magnetic storage tapes capable of storing 148 per Gigabit per inch , which is more than 74 times compared to standard density tapes .

The company said that the new technology represents the highest storage density for these materials , and added that it would allow the establishment of cartridge storage capacity of 185 terabytes .

For comparison , tablets have " L or T - 6" LTO-6 for magnetic storage - which represents the newest generation of this technology - storage density is 2 Gigabit -per-inch or 2.5 terabytes per cartridge of uncompressed .

The storage technology this used since the era of digital computers first , and in spite of the proliferation of USB flash drive and hard flash in recent years , but this technique is still used widely to keep important information on the long-term in data centers and archives of the companies and other facilities .

And materials industry storage drive new , used the " Sony " a kind of technique Films storage thin circle , called " sedimentation Albesaqa " Sputter Deposition, and this process involves the launch of ions argon ( chemical element ) on a substrate of polymer film ( material ) which led to the production of layers of the magnetic crystal molecules .

And was able to " Sony " by adapting the material by the spit and the development of soft magnetic layer on the film, creating a layer of magnetic particles with an average size of 7.7 nm.

The company intends to " Sony " , which did not reveal the release date of this drive commercially talk in detail about the new technology during the conference " Antermaj Europe 2014" Intermag Europe 2014 , which kicks off its effectiveness in Germany on 4 May / May next year .

It should be noted that shipments of magnetic storage tapes had grown by 13 percent in 2012 and are expected to be grown by 26 percent over the past year , according to the industry group Council of magnetic storage tapes .