Sony sets away a record with 185TB cassette tape!

Today, those old discs seem like the stone age of computing its kind of a fossil if we found one.
Now Sony is introducing a new digital tape format intended for large-scale backups that can hold 148 gigabits per square inch!

Once they increase the data density of the tape, they will have tape cartridges with a capacity of 185TB. They unveiled its details on May 4 in conjunction with IBM. This is due to a new manufacturing process, the tape uses a magnetic particle size of 7.7nm, which allows for the data density which is almost 74 times that of the LTO-6 tape format introduced in 2012 & over five times the record set in 2010 by IBM.

Sony plans to commercialize the tape format itself, as well as the manufacturing process. It will be interesting to see what else comes from this technology. Extremely high density tapes are used by corporations and government agencies for archival purposes because they're cheaper, more power efficient, and more reliable than disk-based storage.
Huge Storage space indeed!
Source : Sony