Scientists in China have created a cassette tape that can store all the songs ever recorded.

A team from the Southern University of Science and Technology in Guangdong Province, China, achieved this feat by printing synthetic DNA onto plastic tape and coating it with ‘crystal armor’.

This 100-meter-long DNA tape can store 36 petabytes of data (equivalent to 36,000 terabyte hard drives).

In view of the increase in the amount of data globally, scientists said that this multi-storage method could be used as an alternative to traditional methods.

The researchers said that non-volatile memory based on semiconductors has reached the limit of Moore’s Law, and new media are needed to store extremely large amounts of data.