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All manner of information and historical documents across the world are now archived as digital data and their volume is increasing day by day. How to store such data safely and efficiently and at a reasonable cost has become a significant issue to be addressed.

In response to this situation, Fujifilm—for the first time in the world—has developed a Barium Ferrite (BaFe)-based high capacity magnetic tape, and commenced a data archiving service “d:ternity” utilizing BaFe tape. Magnetic tape offers excellent capabilities in longterm data storage without requiring electricity, unlike a hard disk, which requires a constant power supply so that reduces energy cost and CO2 emissions to one tenth. Also, as it is free from system failures and security risks, such as viruses and hacking, magnetic tape has become an important means of data storage in recent years.

In 2015, we made significant improvements to the characteristics of BaFe magnetic particles, and, jointly with IBM, successfully demonstrated data storage and retrieval of the world’s highest capacity of 220 TB*1 data storage on a single coated magnetic tape with the highest*2 areal recording density of 123 Gbpsi.*3 With an eye on commercializing this technology, we continue to strive to offer a data media service with even higher performance and quality.

*1 Data as of the news release on April 9, 2015 for non-compressed capacity. Based on our own research.

*2 Data as of the news release on April 9, 2015 for coated magnetic tapes. Based on our own research.

*3 Gbpsi: Giga bits per square inch. A unit to indicate areal recoding density.