The hard drive in your computer right now — or even your smartphone, ... Magnetic tape data storage dates back to the 1950s, and its cutting-edge status lasted for several decades.

The amount of data you can squeeze onto a hard drive continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with Seagate announcing a 60TB SSD late last year. But thanks to IBM and Sony, tape might still reign ...

Magnetic tape, 3M, 6250 CPI for computer tape drives, used as storage media between 1970 and 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old.

Magnetic tape drives have long occupied the role that hard drives have shifted toward since the emergence of SSDs – cost-effective cold storage. Although they're too slow for most users, ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades.

The real challenge with tape drives is to make the heads follow the tape. A tape such as the one we use fly over the heads at something like 5 m/s (18 km/h or 11 miles per hour), and the tape wobbles.

LTO-10 magnetic tape cartridges with native storage capacities of 30TB are announced with shipments of cartridges and drives to occur in June 2025. Magnetic tape continues to provide some of the ...

Hard drives gained popularity over spooled magnetic tape as digital audio workstations, mixing and editing software, and the perceived downsides of tape, including deterioration from substrate ...

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 ...

“You get one stream of data out of one tape drive, you access the data, you have to wait a little while but it’s still coming back to you pretty fast: 1,000 megabits per second, compressed ...