US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

The announcement presumably referred to magnetic Linear Tape-Open (LTO) drives and cartridges, a storage medium invented in 1952. Although consumer devices have long since transitioned to hard ...

London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering ... This was further exacerbated by the behaviour of the DEC TK50Z tape drive, which needed to shuttle the whole length of the tape as part ...

OVER FIFTY years ago, the existence of government records on magnetic tape ... reasons to carry on using tape. Stored properly, tapes last longer than hard-disk drives. They are secure from ...

Drive speed is measured in inches per second (ips). Over the decades, storage density jumped from 200 bits per square inch to millions and billions of bits. See magnetic tape formats. THIS ...

The recording medium may be bare or encased in a cartridge, which is inserted into the drive's slot. (3) A magnetic tape drive, all of which use removable cartridges or cassettes. See magnetic tape.

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved ... “just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for ...

The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic field at the recording head of a TAPE RECORDER, is arranged in similar variations, each particle of the ...