“just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.” The comment doesn’t include any context as to what ...

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

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 ...

The announcement presumably referred to magnetic Linear Tape-Open (LTO) drives and cartridges, a storage medium invented in 1952. Although consumer devices have long since transitioned to hard ...

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic ... open reels but were superseded by a variety of cartridges and cassettes. Today, LTO is the only thriving tape ...

offering super-high-density tape cartridges and automated robotic cartridge-handling systems with pick-and-place racks.] Addressing the magnetic microscope and resolution issues, a technique ...

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, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...