What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new ... “just saved $1M ...

Half a century later, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in government. NASA uses it to back up vast amounts of ...

DOGE recently announced that it has replaced 14,000 magnetic storage tapes used by the US General Services Administration ...

The latest embodiment of his comic book fantasies (he described himself as "dark, gothic MAGA" in the run-up to the US ...

The “warm” data in the middle, such as your old photos, can take a few seconds to retrieve. Most data is cold, and a lot of it could probably be erased without consequence. Yet some of it might one ...

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 ...

Drive speed is measured in inches per second (ips). Over the decades, storage density jumped from 200 bits per square inch to millions and billions of bits. See magnetic tape formats. THIS ...

The recording medium may be bare or encased in a cartridge, which is inserted into the drive's slot. (3) A magnetic tape drive, all of which use removable cartridges or cassettes. See magnetic tape.

London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering ... This was further exacerbated by the behaviour of the DEC TK50Z tape drive, which needed to shuttle the whole length of the tape as part ...