The hard drive in your computer right now — or ... a storage technique that you probably thought was long dead: magnetic tape. The partnership between IBM and Sony has resulted in a new type ...

IBM recently introduced its latest magnetic tape drive and cartridge type, with more than double the storage capacity of previous models. It should help cloud storage providers and other ...

Unlike the platters in computer hard drives that feature ultra-thin layers of various metals to store tiny magnetic charges, tape needs to be able to flex, bend, and be wound onto a spool.

This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old. The IBM 726 digital tape drive was introduced in 1952 to provide larger amounts of digital storage for computers ...

So what can magnetic tape do? A single tape is about 3 inches by 3 inches, and 3/4 of an inch thick. It’s smaller than a hard disk drive (HDD), but weighs about 0.6 kilograms (roughly a bit more ...

Many tape cartridges can be used for each drive and data is actively used only when it is in the drives. MORE FOR YOU As a consequence, the energy consumption per storage capacity for magnetic ...

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. Tape was the primary ...

The magnetic media technology, which uses a new process of aligning barium-ferrite (BaFe) particles on the tape, enables a density ... including hard disk drives and flash” drives.

The drive had 50 24-inch platters and a total ... In the late '60s, with unwieldy punched cards and magnetic tape still the de facto standard for loading data into a computer, IBM set about ...

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 ...

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 ...