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 ...

Magnetic storage tape has’t been the recommended ... Here’s a look at modern tape drives, discussion of the degree to which ransomware changes the equation, and a closer look at LTO-9.

THE WHIRR of spooling magnetic tape is more likely to evoke feelings of nostalgia than technological awe. Yet tape remains important for data storage, with millions of kilometres of the stuff coil ...

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 ...

IBM announced a magnetic tape drive 'TS1170' that realizes a capacity of 50 TB when uncompressed and 150 TB when compressed. The TS1170 has 2.5 times the capacity of its predecessor The TS1170 ...

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 ...

and a new breakthrough in data storage by IBM and Sony promises to make your current hard drive feel completely inadequate. The only catch is that it uses a storage technique that you probably thought ...

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 ...

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 ...