Hitachi Maxell and Tokyo Institute of Technology today jointly announced the collaboratively development of ultra high capacity tape media with ultra thin nano-structured magnetic film by using of facing targets sputtering method. This joint team demonstrated a world-record areal density of 45.0 Gb/in2 in linear formatted perpendicular magnetic recording media. This latest technology is a future technology after coated tape generations and enables over 50 TB capacity per a standard tape cartridge, which equals to 33 times larger than a capacity of the latest LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridge.
