If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the ...

The amount of data you can squeeze onto a hard drive ... read head just 48-nanometers in size that was capable of accurately reading the minuscule magnetic particles on Sony’s new tape, as ...

But its very slow read speed isn't great if you need to grab data off it quickly. Huawei reckons it has the perfect solution with its magnetic-electric drives, combining a large SSD, twin tape ...

Far from being rendered obsolete by hard drives ... control of the tape head servo, so it can be positioned over the tape with nano-scale accuracy, allowing for finer tracks of data to be written ...