DIGITAL RECORDING also uses magnetic tape as a storage medium, such as digital audio tape (DAT), but these smaller formats cannot be spliced. The tape speed for the DAT format is only 8.15 mm/sec ...

According to data tracked by Trendfocus, shipments of the most popular form of magnetic tape — linear tape-open (LTO) — increased by about 55.2% between 2017 and 2024.

Magnetic tape’s capability to evolve with technology, as brought to light with recent IBM innovation, renders it perhaps as necessary in the decades to come.

The average magnetic tape today can store around 15 terabytes of data, but IBM says that new tapes it has been developing could store up to 580 terabytes. Contrary to what DOGE said in its post ...

Dublin, Oct. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Magnetic Tape Market by Base Materials (Synthetic Rubber, PVC and Others), by End-Users (Data Storage, Packaging & Labeling, Consumer Appliances and ...

Magnetic tape recordings used in videotapes and cassette tapes, which were popular up to the 2000s, are at risk of being lost as the tapes deteriorate and replay equipment are no longer produced ...

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...

An April 4 U.S. Department of Government Efficiency social post announced that the U.S. General Services Administration IT team “just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 ...

OVER FIFTY years ago, the existence of government records on magnetic tape brought down a president. In 1971 the Secret Service installed Sony open-reel tape recorders throughout the White House ...

DIGITAL RECORDING also uses magnetic tape as a storage medium, such as digital audio tape (DAT), but these smaller formats cannot be spliced. The tape speed for the DAT format is only 8.15 mm/sec ...