Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the ...

Those who were around for the pre-floppy days of computer mass storage were likely to have made the mistake of slipping a cassette tape containing data into a stereo tape deck. Instead of hearing ...

Starting in the 1980s, internal and external tape drives were occasionally used with personal computers. By the late 1990s, personal computer tape backup was largely abandoned due to CD-ROMs and ...

Tape Drive A tape drive is a device that copies files from a computer onto tape cartridges. Tape drives are also called tape backup units. A tape drive can be inside the computer case or connected to ...

Data storage systems are used to store, protect and manage computer data. There are many different types of products. Examples include hard drives, tape drives, floppy drives, and removable cartridge ...

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...

Earlier this year, Huawei introduced its so-called magneto-electric disk (MED) storage technology, which combines the performance of SSDs with the capacity of tape. MED is designed to address ...