And since cloud storage means the end user doesn’t have to be aware of exactly how their data is stored, you might find yourself relying on magnetic tape without even realizing it.

Although magnetic tape hasn’t been popular at the consumer level since about the 1980s, in the realm of data centers and longer term archival storage, its slower speeds are an acceptable price ...

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When you take that storage density and apply it to a length of 1,098 meters you're left with a cartridge capable of storing an insane 330 terabytes of data.</p> <p>Magnetic tape data storage dates ...

That said, while 153 EB (153,000,000 TB) sounds a lot, the shipment report notes that this value is based on a 2.5:1 compression ratio being used by the magnetic tape storage, so the raw figure is ...

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Tape will never be the whole answer to storing data, according to Dr Eleftheriou. But it forms a crucial part of a “storage hierarchy”. At the top of this are so-called hot data, those that ...

Like all data storage methods, magnetic tapes have pluses and minuses. They're a physical medium, which adds a bonus level of stability compared to NAND flash memory.

Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time yet, according to one of Sun Microsystems' top storage ...

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 ...

Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and at Fuji Photo have devised a prototype storage system utilizing a dual-layer magnetic tape that can hold 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch.

Magnetic tape data storage dates back to the 1950s, and its cutting-edge status lasted for several decades.