Sony has reinvented the cassette tape, in a way, making it one of the most impressive mass storage units ever. This new cartridge is capable of holding 47 million songs. But why the cassette? And how does it work? And should we all get prepared to rewind tapes with pencils again? Kim Horcher, Tim Frisch, and Brian Walton (Editor in Chief, Nerdist.com) discuss.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/tech/innovation/data-storage-cassette-tape-sony/
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Actually when she talks about the cloud, what does she think the cloud is? It’s rows and rows of regular hard disk drives in a warehouse somewhere. And if these facilities could back up their content of thousands of drives regularly on a few cheap cassettes, filling only a closet, that would be a huge security benefit.