Even so, it does offer a glimpse into the advancements that storage technology is making and how that could trickle down into consumer and professional products over the coming years.
As PetaPixel points out, the two companies making tape drives these days are Sony and Fuji. While incredibly slow, you can put a lot of information on one hence why it is might be attractive for archival use. The standard is known as Linear-Tape Open with the current iteration being LTO-8 which can store 12TB of information.
The upcoming next-gen LT0-9 bumps that number up to 24TB. The website also quotes the site Blocks and Files which states that “current LTO formats all use magnetic tapes coated in Barium Ferrite (BaFe), but Fuji is proposing using Strontium Ferrite (SrFe) instead. Because SrFe is a smaller molecule with ‘superior properties’ to BaFe, this would allow for higher density storage on the same amount of tape.”
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