The amount of data you can squeeze onto a hard drive continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with Seagate announcing a 60TB SSD late last year. But thanks to IBM and Sony, tape might still reign ...

IBM has been considering using digital magnetic tape, a storage medium that was first invented in 1952, as the method of the future.

HoloMem's technology distinguishes itself from earlier holographic storage ventures by using mass-produced, low-cost ...

Magnetic tape's high storage capacity and relatively low cost per gigabyte make it an attractive option for long-term data retention and archival purposes.

Cerabyte aims to replace magnetic tape with laser-etched glass tablets, offering massive storage density and long lifespan, ...

Munich-based storage startup Cerabyte has laid out a bold vision for the future of archival data storage, aiming to deliver ...

Hardware Storage Despite being older than the PC, magnetic tape storage is far from dead, in fact it's growing with 153,000,000 terabytes of the fragile stuff shipped in 2023 News ...

Options like magnetic tape, Blu-ray Disc, and even DNA may provide stable but relatively temporary storage banks in which data can live while better technologies are tested and brought to market.

Tape storage refers to magnetic tape data storage, a technology for storing digital information on magnetic tape through digital recording that is used for storing large amounts of data.

Launched nearly 25 years ago, Linear Tape-Open (LTO) is a well-established magnetic tape data storage technology that has undergone continuous innovation.

Inside the cassette is a kilometre of magnetic tape, capable of storing 18 terabytes of data. That's a lot - just one tape can hold the same amount of data as almost 300 standard smartphones.