Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

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 medium ...

Magnetic storage is quickly becoming an antiquated technology but IBM may have given it a few more years. Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t ...

Many think magnetic tape used for storing computer data is a dead medium, but it’s making a big comeback, with predictions that one day a tape will each store a hefty 400 terabytes of data. Just one ...

Dublin, Oct. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Magnetic Tape Market by Base Materials (Synthetic Rubber, PVC and Others), by End-Users (Data Storage, Packaging & Labeling, Consumer Appliances and ...

IBM discovered a way to pack 201 gigabytes of data per square inch, or a maximum of 330 terabytes, onto a single tape cartridge that’ll fit in the palm of your hand. It is capable of housing 330 ...

WHEN physicists switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), between three and six gigabytes of data spew out of it every second. That is, admittedly, an extreme example. But the flow of data from ...

The Massachusetts-based DATAmatic Division of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company sold one of its room-sized DATAmatic 1000 systems to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, where it was installed ...

An April 4 U.S. Department of Government Efficiency social post announced that the U.S. General Services Administration IT team “just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 year ...

Some day soon, we may have trouble explaining to our kids the concept of a computer booting up. Just as vacuum-tube radios and their obligatory warm-up time now seem quaint, so too will computers with ...

In a nutshell: If you are at least as old as me, you might remember back to the days when magnetic tape was the only option for computer storage. Those memories are not fond ones for me --- having to ...