Before playlists, even before cassettes, there were 8-track tapes—and despite their quirks, they had undeniable charm in ...

A silent film showcasing techniques for splicing film and magnetic tape, both by hand and using a splicer. A look at vintage industrial classroom equipment.

As businesses and individuals become more reliant on digital data and information, the need for reliable and secure backup options becomes increasingly important. One such option is tape backup, a ...

Why it matters: Many users, including staffers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), likely consider magnetic tape storage severely outdated. Despite being around for several decades ...

[Incidentally, if you think that tape storge is an obsolete relic from the “dinosaur days” of computers, think again: Tape drives are still widely used for archival storage and off-site backup ...

In October 2024, Overland-Tandberg, a company specializing in backup and archiving, announced a strategic realignment. It was giving up its LTO magnetic tape archive systems business and wanted to ...

The rumors of magnetic tape’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Tape is one of the oldest forms of storage still in use today, and the seventh generation of Linear Tape Open (LTO 7) paves the way ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with ...

If you thought magnetic tape backup was dead, you'd be wrong... with the manufacturers behind the Linear Tape-Open (standard) shipping 152.9 exabytes of magnetic tape capacity (compressed) in 2023 ...

Magnetic tape is a storage method still used today, with the manufacturers behind Linear Tape-Open (standard) shipping 152.9 exabytes of tape in 2023.