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The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...

storage practice leader at Lighthouse Computer Services, a Sepaton partner. Restores are also much easier with a disk-based backup than tape. The exact data can be accessed immediately on disk ...

This was a rather unusual continuous-loop mini-tape cartridge that could store around 100 kB and load it at lightning speed, all at a much lower price point than a floppy drive. The low price came ...

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When it comes to cheap but massive data storage, magnetic tape is still the favoured choice of data centre managers. But its very slow read speed isn't great if you need to grab data off it quickly.

said a virtual VTL could help open the market for replacing tape with disk-based storage. "We're selling VTLs to SMBs and enterprises, across the board," Knieriemen said. "It's a 50-50 split.