In today's computing world, there are just a few things that come to mind when you mention "storage." Flash drives, hard drives, solid state drives and maybe even cloud storage. But that's about the ...

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Magnetic tape drives have been around for more than six decades now. It’s commercial use has been mostly for storing data, such as tax documents and health care records, from mainframe computers. From ...

The dream of turning solid objects invisible is an ancient one. In recent years a number of experiments have succeeded in "cloaking" (to borrow a term from Star Trek) specialized materials, rendering ...

For mass storage duties, you can forget about mechanical hard drives, let alone solid state drives wielding NAND flash memory. After all these years, magnetic tape is still the capacity king. That is ...

In the wonder world of electronics, much of the magic is performed by a simple looking device—a plastic ribbon covered with particles of iron oxide. Its name: magnetic tape. On its surface a fantastic ...

In the time when technological development is the gauge of advancement, the American government’s move to replace magnetic tape storages with digital storage has been highly debated. The move can be ...