Magnetic head, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, and magnetic tape system

A magnetic head provided with a plurality of servo reading elements corresponding to a plurality of servo bands in which a plurality of servo patterns are recorded along a longitudinal direction of a magnetic tape and performing recording of data on the magnetic tape and reproducing of the data from the magnetic tape, the magnetic head comprising:

• a recording module in which a plurality of recording elements are provided between a pair of first servo reading elements adjacent to each other in a width direction of the magnetic tape among the plurality of servo reading elements;
• and
• a reproducing module in which a plurality of reproducing elements are provided between a pair of second servo reading elements adjacent to each other in the width direction among the plurality of servo reading elements,
• wherein the recording module and the reproducing module are disposed along the longitudinal direction,
• the pair of first servo reading elements and the pair of second servo reading elements are shifted from each other by a predetermined difference in one direction of the width direction, and
• the predetermined difference is defined based on a pitch between a plurality of tracks formed by recording the data on the magnetic tape by the recording element using an SMR method and a length of the recording element in the width direction.