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.

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.

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 ...

Despite being older than the PC, magnetic tape storage is far from dead, in fact it's growing with 153,000,000 terabytes of the fragile stuff shipped in 2023 News By Nick Evanson published 28 May 2024 ...

“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 ...

Spools of magnetic tape aren’t going to be making a mass comeback any time soon. You won’t ditch your solid-state disk drive for tape cartridges.

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 ...

The audio production industry website Mix Online reports that tons of major archives of music master recordings-mostly from the 90s-have been dying out and disappearing. The problem? Hard drives. For ...

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.