Evaluation of Sputtered Tape Media with Hard Disk Drive Components

Magnetic tape is used for deep archival storage as a means of storing large amount of infrequently accessed data. Current magnetic tape media consists of a random assembly of small Ba-Ferrite particles encapsulated in a polymeric film coated on a 5 micron-thick plastic substrate. The areal density in current tape products is about 11 Gb/in 2 . Latest particulate media recording demonstrations have...