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Basics
- Create magnetic tape using iron powder and some sort of plastic film
- Slower, but low tech to create.
- VHS Form could hold quite a bit (see below) and be familiar to many devices (off the shelf or hacked)
- The D-VHS standard had a capacity of 50 GB (And this may not be fully optimized due to the world jumping to optical/SSDs etc)
What type of scanning to use?
- Linear Scanning is less likely to fail, but less data storage dense
- Helical Scanning is more data dense, but can catastrophically fail, and be hard to maintain
What type of plastic/film to use?
Size (/Format ie physical)
=Size (Digital Capacity)