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 ...

And these days, with digital storage at our fingertips ... but on clunky plastic cartridges containing coiled ribbons of magnetic tape. That’s right, much of the world’s data is stored ...

Now researchers at the University of Tokyo have made magnetic tape using a new material, which allows higher storage density and more protection against interference, as well as a new way to write ...

Magnetic Tape: A Key Technology in Data Storage Magnetic tape, a medium for magnetic recording, was developed in Germany in 1928, evolving from magnetic wire recording. It played a pivotal role in ...

Tapes will make sense to those born in the early 80s but magnetic ribbons have long ... and get 9TB of native storage (22.5TB compressed). You can grab one (HPE LTO 7 Tape with Barium Ferrite ...

Magnetic tape may seem like a pretty antiquated data storage technology, but its density and capacity is still hard to beat for big data centers. Now, IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to create a ...

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.

That’s what IBM has been considering by taking and dusting off digital magnetic tape, a storage medium that was first invented in 1952 with a capacity of around 2MB per reel, to be used as the ...

Obviously the creators of the Walkman aren't envisioning their new storage technology being used in the consumer space, but Sony says this is way more than an experiment. Magnetic tape is still a ...

but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been the recommended destination for the initial backup copy of data for quite some time ...

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 ...

the magnetic particles measured in at just 7.7 nanometers on average, able to be closely packed together. Perhaps surprisingly, storage tape shipments grew 13% two years ago, and were headed for a ...