{"id":62730,"date":"2012-10-22T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T09:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=62730"},"modified":"2012-10-22T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T09:39:11","slug":"cassette-tapes-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/62730-cassette-tapes-making-a-comeback.html","title":{"rendered":"Cassette tapes making a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Cassette tapes are making a comeback, as the audio platform of yesteryear is set to become an effective storage option.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Fuji Film and IBM have experimented with magnetic tape coated in particles of barium ferrite, which allows for up to 35 terabytes of data to be captured on a cassette that measures 10cm x 2cm.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-dense tapes use far less energy than disc drives, although a downside is that they are slower to access due to the mechanical nature of cassette tapes.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21628875.500-cassette-tapes-are-the-future-of-big-data-storage.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Scientist <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Hard drive, SSD technology improvements continue\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/60509-hard-drive-ssd-technology-improvements-continue.html\">Hard drive, SSD technology improvements continue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Lenovo buys cloud computing firm\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/60131-lenovo-buys-cloud-computing-firm.html\">Lenovo buys cloud computing firm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to How secure is the cloud?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/62044-how-secure-is-the-cloud.html\">How secure is the cloud?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/58269-ibm-prepares-new-mainframe-computer.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM prepares new mainframe computer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassette tapes could find a resurgence as the leading mass storage platform of the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":62738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7565,7979,3386,16340],"class_list":["post-62730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-cassette-tapes","tag-quicknews","tag-storage","tag-ultra-dense-tapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62748,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62730\/revisions\/62748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}