Fujifilm and IBM develop magnetic tape that can store up to 35 TB

Fujifilm and IBM have teamed up to develop a magnetic tape can store up to 35 TB of uncompressed digital data, the amount that is 44 times greater than what was previously possible.

It’s been several years of research and one of the success factors that have successfully developed a magnetic tape based on barium ferrite (BAFE) particles. To increase storage capacity, the size of the particles must be reduced. However, smaller particles usually result weaker magnetism.

The two companies successfully overcome by the particles to have developed that is one third the size of conventional metal magnetic substances, but still maintain a high magnetism. Once a 35TB tape is commercially available, it is best used to back up today growing amount of data in a cheaper way.