Drive speed is measured in inches per second (ips). Over the decades, storage density jumped from 200 bits per square inch to millions and billions of bits. See magnetic tape formats. THIS ...

The recording medium may be bare or encased in a cartridge, which is inserted into the drive's slot. (3) A magnetic tape drive, all of which use removable cartridges or cassettes. See magnetic tape.

SSD, measured by the benchmark of IOPS, offers 10 times more input/output operations each second, with one-tenth the latency of magnetic tape drives, as well as greater bandwidth and consistency.

Uncoated tape used to separate other sections of tape is called leader. Magnetic tape superseded the earlier magnetic wire recorders after World War II because of the ease with which one could splice ...

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 ...