Tape was the primary medium because early data ... but they all gave way to USB storage (see USB drive). See optical disc. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Virtual tape libraries employ disk-based backup storage that emulates the behavior of tape backup, using tape equipment to manage disk backup, thus beefing up performance and adding a layer of ...

which were the primary storage medium at that time (see magnetic tape). A hard disk comprises one or more aluminum or glass platters, coated with a ferromagnetic material. Although the terms "hard ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

It proved to be less expensive but slower than drum memory, while being faster and more expensive than tape drives. The first commercial hard disk drive was introduced in 1956 as part of the IBM ...