This is why, as the world creates ever more data, magnetic tape is still a popular choice for cheap, large-scale, long-term storage. That said, while 153 EB (153,000,000 TB) sounds a lot ...

Magnetic storage is quickly becoming an antiquated ... they’re the antithesis of solid state drives (SSDs) because tape drives are slow to retrieve data but capable of holding a lot inexpensively.

A sequential storage medium used for data collection, backup and archiving. The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic ...

When it comes to cheap but massive data storage, magnetic tape is still the favoured choice of data centre managers. But its very slow read speed isn't great if you need to grab data off it quickly.

A high-capacity data storage system for storing, retrieving, reading and writing multiple magnetic tape cartridges. Also called a "tape automation system," it contains storage racks for holding ...

Through its research arm, Microsoft is developing its own long-term data storage system. Like HoloMem it has decided that it's time to move on from magnetic tape, but Microsoft has chosen glass as ...

London-based Magnetic ... tapes. But there was a problem, it turns out that the decaying tapes used a unstable polyurethane-based binder to stick the oxide material (which is what stores the data ...

The first two articles focused on digital storage and memory devices including magnetic tape ... growth of archive data to support 2025 workflows. Rich Godomski, Head of Tape Evangelism with ...