Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

These days, tape storage systems are rare outside of enterprise environments that need large-scale data backup. The MagStor simplifies tape use, offering 18–45 TB per cassette, and although initial ...

Usually here at PC Gamer I'm writing about blisteringly fast storage to get your games up and running as soon as possible. We're talking speedy SSDs that reduce your boot times to the point where they ...

There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...

Tape is the IT industry’s longest-lived magnetic medium and offers a number of benefits over spinning disk and flash technology. These include capacity and cost. Once a tape system is set up, it is ...