Terabyte storage is already knocking quite loudly on everyone’s doors but not everyone could afford the extreme prices that come with the new tier storage but through IBM and FUJIFILM’s efforts another form of storage might become available at a more affordable price or at least that’s what analysts assume.

Storage is just about everything that can be used to store data, from flash drives to solid state drives and magnetic tape storage might yet provide us with another form of storage that will be cheaper and higher capacity than existing forms but it’s still all speculation. The technology is not really new, it’s just dusted off by IBM and FUJIFILM by developing it into storage of a much higher capacity than previous magnetic tape storage.

The joint venture developed the largest areal data density ever recorded for linear magnetic tape, up to a 35 Terabyte data storage capacity which is one of the highest capacity hard drives in the market today. Mainstream hard disk drives that can be bought at the moment goes only as high as 2TB though there are business and film industry forms of storage that go much higher but those are expensive compared to the 35 Terabyte storage from IBM and Fujifilm.