Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the ...

2025 promises increased demand for storage devices, systems and software to support the growth of AI data processing. AI will ...

It may also refer to a magnetic tape library. Mass storage is an old term that refers to storage, which was always much larger (more "massive") than main memory (RAM). Still true today ...

Data storage media is used to record and store large-scale data from computer systems. Examples include optical disks and magnetic tapes. Data storage media, such as magnetic tape, consists of a ...

Long gone are the days where all our data could fit on a two-megabyte floppy disk. In today's information-based society, the ...

MIT scientists have found a new way to control magnetic states in materials, potentially paving the way for advancements in ...

Dimensions listed are in mils. 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 ...

MIT scientists have developed a groundbreaking magnetizing laser in new research that could have significant ramifications ...

Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in the 1970s alongside tape drives, which were the primary storage medium (see magnetic tape). A hard disk ...

and magnetic tape. The general recession in HDD demand (as well as other digital storage and memory products) that began in 2022 and continued through most of 2023 appears to have ended in 2024.