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

Elon Musk's organization aims to save $1 million annually by converting government records to digital formats. That switch ...

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

Testing the equipment, [Hans] and his friend found the device simply wouldn’t work; the homemade magnetic tape was simply too thick, and you couldn’t just go out and buy a reel of magnetic tape.

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 tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic field at the recording head of a TAPE RECORDER, is arranged in similar variations, each particle of the ...

Tape storage devices are constantly being refreshed with ... and consumer SSDs that can transfer data at over 14 MB/s, older magnetic storage media like HDDs and tape remain on the menu.

The nature of the van der Waals forces between layers allows researchers to use Scotch tape to peel the layers into atomic thickness. The team developed a device known as a magnetic tunnel ...

An 8mm-wide magnetic tape technology that is used in analog ... in 1984 and turned it into a high-performance digital storage device in 1987. The cartridges held 2.5GB, a breakthrough for the ...