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 ...

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 ...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...

5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording. The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic ...

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.