In terms of costs, storing data on tape is pennies per gigabyte and when not in use, tape requires no energy unlike hard disks and flash,” IBM wrote in a 2020 article dedicated to the lasting ...

In the time when technological development is the gauge of advancement, the American government’s move to replace magnetic ...

reaffirming its position that magnetic tape is a form of data storage that’s here to stay. Yes, magnetic tape, kind of like what’s spooled inside the VHS tapes and cassettes of last century.

While solid storage drives have become increasingly popular as a data storage medium in data centres, another much older technology is also reducing demand for hard disk drives.

Cerabyte recently conducted an experiment that seemed more like a culinary exercise than a technology showcase. The German ...

The latest hard-disk drives and magnetic tapes use this principle to read ... is a key step on the path to practical skyrmion-based data-storage devices. However, the magnetization switching ...

SSD speed with tape's low cost and reliability. A match made in heaven or the worst of both worlds? When it comes to cheap but massive data storage, magnetic tape is still the favoured choice of ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with ...

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream back in ...