This weeks lecture topic covered the basics of computer related data storage.
Kilobyte, Megabyte, Terabyte... these things I am familiar with, so I decided to do some digging on something I was a less familar with: Exabyte storage. (And let me just say for the record that I LOVE zdnet.com for tech news.)
So... a very interesting article appeared today about a new tape drive using Barium-Ferrite (BaFe) tape. I am not a chemist, but it sounds from the article like a very interesting development indeed because it, apprently, does not rust. This posits some interesting potential benefits for archival quality storage of born digital documents, especially in high-humidity environments. Maybe not in the short-term, due to expense, but if the affordability curve of technological developments remains true to form over time, in five years, or ten, it will not only be more affordable, but also (one hopes) have a documented performance records that lives up to expectations.
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