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Gotta love it. :icon_thumleft: :icon_mrgreen:

 

http://gizmodo.com/sony-crams-3-700-blu-ra...dium=socialflow

 

Sony Crams 3,700 Blu-Rays' Worth of Storage in a Single Cassette Tape

 

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don't get much love. That's a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony just unveiled tape that holds a whopping 148 GB per square inch, meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data. Prepare for the mixtape to end all mixtapes.

 

Sony's technique, which will be discussed at today's International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, uses a vacuum-forming technique called sputter deposition to create a layer of magnetic crystals by shooting argon ions at a polymer film substrate. The crystals, measuring just 7.7 nanometers on average, pack together more densely than any other previous method.

 

The result: three Blu-Rays' worth of data can fit on one square inch of Sony's new wonder-tape.

 

Naturally, that kind of memory isn't going to go in the cassette deck on your ancient boom box any time soon. Sony developed the technology for long-term, industrial-sized data backup, a field where tape's slow write times and the time it takes to scroll through yards and yards of tape to find a single file aren't crippling problems.

 

Sony wouldn't say when or if this new type of tape is expected to hit the market, but when it does, it'll be a victory for the old school.

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Took these two years ago while stopping by a buddy's shop. 2005 V8 Tacoma. It was seven years old at the time. Owner delivers for Red Express. Original motor, no bottom end work done. It was in for a leaking rear main seal and brakes. I'll have to ask him if he's seen it recently. Should be close to a million at this point if he's still driving it.

 

Love seeing super high mileage vehicles.

 

I know a guy on F-list ( a courier) who posted this as his sig last year:

 

'86 GTI, Red of course. (exciting racey car) 276,000 miles

'01 Golf TDI, silver. (new work car) 399,000 miles

'87 Golf, Polar Silver. (retired work car) 654,000 miles <- Gone to a new

home :(

 

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I don't know if it's the microphone they used or what... but some of them sounded like farts. Totally reminded me of the innertube exhaust.

 

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That is freaking awesome!

Ya maybe it can become some super new lightweight material that replaced carbon fiber. That would be awesome.

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The really hard part is synthesizing large quantities of carbon nanotubes. I actually just presented on the topic, so if anyone has questions, ask!

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