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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is why, as the world creates ever more data, magnetic tape is still a popular choice ... Best NVMe SSD: Compact M.2 drives. Best external hard drive: Huge capacities for less.

Tape storage can operate in «cold» mode, and therefore is protected from malware. Studies have also shown that magnetic tape drives are less polluting than hard disks and SSDs. The main disadvantage ...

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 ...

The use of magnetic tape and other removable magnetic media ... could replicate the exacting demands of for example a hard drive platter it’s evident that there is something in pursuing this ...

We love to amass information. And these days, with digital storage at our fingertips, we stockpile ludicrous amounts of the stuff, whether it is on hard drives at home or in the cloud. You might ...