Elon Musk's organization aims to save $1 million annually by converting government records to digital formats. That switch ...

Magnetic storage is quickly becoming an antiquated ... they’re the antithesis of solid state drives (SSDs) because tape drives are slow to retrieve data but capable of holding a lot inexpensively.

Half a century later, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in government. NASA uses it to back up vast amounts of ...

The “warm” data in the middle, such as your old photos, can take a few seconds to retrieve. Most data is cold, and a lot of it could probably be erased without consequence. Yet some of it might one ...

The comment doesn’t include any context as to what tape technology was used (reel-to-reel or cartridge), how long it took to ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

Though we have fingernail-sized micro-SD cards that can store 1TB now and consumer SSDs that can transfer data at over 14 MB/s, older magnetic storage media like HDDs and tape remain on the menu.

President Trump's DOGE team, headed by Elon Musk, claims to have saved $1 million by ditching 70-year-old tape data storage.

DOGE recently announced that it has replaced 14,000 magnetic storage tapes used by the US General Services Administration ...

A sequential storage medium used for data collection, backup and archiving. The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic ...

A medium for holding information (data, voice, video, etc.), such as tape and disk. The medium can be erased and reused over and over again. In the digital world, information is recorded by ...