The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...

The 50s called and they want their tapes back. Forget crystals, holograms, or even DNA. The storage solution of the future might come from the pass. And that's not an exaggeration either. Sony and IBM ...

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 ...

Since most large and small businesses use spinning disks to store most of their data, the idea of employing linear magnetic tape machines for vital storage seems like a throwback to an age gone by.

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, in ...

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 coiled ...

There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...

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 ...

Wait a moment — have I stepped into a time machine? We all know that magnetic tape is so….yesterday. Isn’t all storage these days on solid-state or hard-disk drive (HDD) memory? The answer is yes, it ...

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 ...