There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...

As artificial intelligence continues its dizzying ascent, the unsung hero of the digital age is making a comeback: Tape storage. Once dismissed as outdated, tape storage is now being hailed as a ...

Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information ...

The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...

Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century, but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time, according to one of Sun Microsystems' top storage ...

Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

If you’ve got a mountain of digital data to store but don’t necessarily need to access it every day, tape cartridges are the way to go. Twelve terabytes of storage will set you back about $100 these ...

On location in Africa, a movie crew wraps up the day’s shooting on a nature documentary and camera operators shut down their rigs. NAND flash cards are removed from the cameras and the scenes that ...

By storing data in DNA, the cassette offers a compact and low-energy way to archive billions of songs long-term.

Data-storage company Quantum unveiled Monday an automated storage tape system dubbed "Mako," with hopes that the product will take a bite out of rival Storage Technology. The new Mako PX720 is what's ...